Sharon Stone's Complicated Grief
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What significant life events shaped Sharon Stone's perspective on grief?
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Welcome to All There Is. Wherever you are in the world and in your grief, I'm glad you're here. My guest today is actress, writer, artist Sharon Stone. In 2001, she had a near-fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage. It took her nearly seven years to recover, and she says she's now living her second life. In her 2021 memoir, she wrote, The lessons of my second life are of recovering from loss, the loss of all things we call dear. My father, my three closest friends, my marriage, my health, the custody of my son, my career, my financial stability. One might say my identity. The grief and sense of failure that this caused was terribly, awfully overwhelming. Soon after that memoir came out, Sharon experienced the death of her 11-month-old nephew, River.
Then two years later, his father, Sharon's brother, Patrick, died. And in 2025, Sharon's mom died as well. Sharon Stone is 68 now. She most recently starred in Euphoria on HBO. She has three sons through adoption, Rome, Laird, and Quinn. I spoke to her several weeks ago. When you think of grief, what do you think of?
I think of the way that I've dealt with it in my life, losing so many members of my immediate family. But I then think about it in the way that it's imposed on us. with the, no offense to Hallmark, but the sort of greeting card industry, how we are supposed to societally respond when tribally around the universe, people respond to it in varied ways, from celebratory to beating themselves and wailing and all kinds of things. There's a myriad of ways that people experience loss. So I think of it... with a very open heart.
You came very close to dying.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, some would say I did die and was defibrillated and brought back. I had that white light experience, which has stayed upon my shoulder and made me feel quite safe in this continued existence.
Can you talk about what you saw?
I saw and felt myself being pulled upward into this incredibly bright white, but white doesn't exactly explain it. This light, this light that is brighter than anything we've ever experienced. Like moving directly into something bright as the sun, but not yellow. And as I was whooshing upwards, the top of it appeared to open. And friends of mine, dear ones who had passed, and particularly dear ones who I had aided in their passing, who I loved so much, were like peeking at me through the top of this light. and smiling at me and welcoming me. And I was seeing them like, oh, away, away, you know, like, hi. Like I was so happy to see them when all of a sudden I felt like I'd been kicked in the chest by a mule, you know, just wow.
And I expect they must have defibrillated me. And I just remember gasping like that kind of thing when you've been underwater too long, like you're swimming in a lake or somewhere and you just, all of a sudden you're like, oh, I'm underwater way too long. And you come up for air and you're just like, I had that kind of experience and I sat up. And then I remember they said, they're going to take you to a neurological hospital. you'll be okay, we've got you. And I passed out again. And then I woke up in the neurological ICU and the girl next to me was screaming relentlessly. And the man directly across from me died. And I remember seeing him die and his machine slowing down, the beeps slowing down and stopping.
and then them coming to get him, his body, and then them taking the machines out and then remaking his bed. And it was just, it was one of these kind of surreal experiences. They had gave me the first exam where they give you, they go in the femoral artery and go up and look around and they missed it, which was just a nightmare. And so I hemorrhaged into my brain for nine days And I had a eight or nine hour surgery and then was moved to regular ICU so that I could come down off of this synthetic heroin, which is called Dilaudid, that they had been giving me.
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