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Health See other Health Articles Title: Sharon Stone Gets Candid About Life After Her Stroke: ‘People Treated Me in a Way That Was Brutally Unkind’ Sharon Stone Gets Candid About Life After Her Stroke: People Treated Me in a Way That Was Brutally Unkind James Patrick Herman 1 hr ago Sharon Stone is back. And after famously serving as amfARs Global Campaign Chair for 15 years, shes taken on a new role as advocate for brain-aging diseases that disproportionally affect women. Only one third of Alzheimers patients are men, for instance. And dont even get Stone started on strokes. This is why I do it: My mother had a stroke. My grandmother had a stroke. I had a massive stroke and a nine-day brain bleed, she told Variety at an event she hosted to raise awareness for the Womens Brain Health Initiative in West Hollywood on Wednesday night. © Rob Latour/Variety/Shutterstock They say that Hollywood loves a comeback but unfortunately, that has not been Stones experience. People treated me in a way that was brutally unkind, she said. And she wasnt referring to men (other than perhaps her ex-husband Phil Bronstein). From other women in my own business to the female judge who handled my custody case, I dont think anyone grasps how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover it took me about seven years. During that time, Stone suffered insurmountable losses, both professional and personal: [From] trying to keep custody of my son to just functioning to be able to work at all, Stone added. I was so grateful to [LVMH head and now the second-richest person in the world] Bernard Arnault, who rescued me by giving me a Dior contract. But I had to remortgage my house. I lost everything I had. I lost my place in the business. I was like the hottest movie star, you know? she said, her voice trailing off. It was like Miss Princess Diana and I were so famous and she died and I had a stroke. And we were forgotten. But what Stone wants people to remember is her potentially life-saving advice: if you have a really bad headache, you need to go to the hospital, she said. I didnt get to the hospital until day three or four of my stroke. Most people die. I had a 1% chance of living by the time I got surgery and they wouldnt know for a month if I would live. At the time, Stone wasnt even aware of how dire her chances for survival were. No one told me I read it in a magazine, she added. The sister of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was another one of the lucky survivors of a brain aneurysm. She had a massive headache and collapsed, Jane Seymour told Variety. She was not expected to live, and they had to close down [the set of] Dr. Quinn. I was by her bedside the whole time. But she managed to relearn how to walk, talk and shes good now. We call her the miracle. Poster Comment: Video at source. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
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I remember Stone in that flick with Steven Seagal, Above the Law.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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