Sharon Stone has had just as much drama in real life than in her numerous film roles.
In her new memoir “The Beauty of Living Twice,” the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner reveals more untold details about her past.
As a teenager, she crossed state lines to have an abortion.
“I was too scared and shocked to know what to do,” Stone writes in the new book, further detailing how at age 18 she and her then-boyfriend drove from rural Pennsylvania to Ohio to undergo the procedure.
“I was bleeding all over the place and far worse than I should have been, but this was a secret and I had no one to tell so I stayed in my room and bled for days,” she explained. “I was weak and scared.”
When she finally recovered, the Keystone State native torched her bloody sheets and clothes in a barrel at school before heading back to class. Stone later went to a Planned Parenthood, where she received birth control and counseling.
“This, above all else, saved me: that someone, anyone, could talk to me, educate me,” the former McDonald’s fry girl writes. “No one ever had, about anything.”
Elsewhere in the dishy tome, the “Basic Instinct” star claims that a manager had some choice words for her just weeks before she was cast in the breakthrough role that made her a hot Hollywood commodity.
“My manager at the time had told me that no one would hire me because everyone said I wasn’t sexy,” Stone revealed. “I wasn’t, as they liked to say in Hollywood, at the time, f—kable.”
“The Beauty of Living Twice,” published by Knopf and out now, is the Academy Award-nominated actresses’ candid look at her life and her career, written in chilling detail.
She also revealed that producers often approached her about having sex with her co-stars. “”Sex, not just sexuality onscreen, has long been expected in my business,” Stone writes.
With candor, the 63-year-old mother of three talks about the many roles she played, her life-changing friendships, and her accomplishments and disappointments.
Stone, who was hit by lightning as a teen and later suffered a massive stroke at 41, also discusses aspects of the trauma and violence she endured as a child and how her chosen career as an actress echoed many of those same assaults.
“This is one the bravest memoirs I’ve ever read,” Knopf senior editor Tim O’Connell said about the book. “It’s a celebration of strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism.”