Despite being destitute with a 1% chance of surviving following a stroke, Sharon Stone asserts that I made it, and you can too
The ‘Casino’ actress says she wants people to “look at me and know” they can battle to survive. She also issues a serious caution to anyone who could be experiencing symptoms.
In this video, Sharon Stone talks about how she overcome a near-fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage in 2001 that gave her a “1% chance of survival.”
While hosting the American Heart Association (AHA) Red Dress Collection Concert on January 30, Stone, 66, tells PEOPLE exclusively, “I walked out of that hospital, 18% of my body mass gone, dragging my right foot, unable to write my own name.” She said that she was “unable to remember anything” after the stroke.
“I’m right here hosting this ball on two feet in five-inch heels,” the Basic Instinct star tells PEOPLE.
Stone claims there were no rehabilitation programs available to her after a ruptured vertebral artery spilled into her brain for nine days.
There wasn’t a program that would help me walk again when it happened to me. Stone notes, “There was no program that would stop my stuttering.” “There was no insurance to help me, and insurance companies are definitely f—ing us left and right. There was also no aftercare. Nothing was there. And there’s probably even less now, I’m sure.
Her husband, Phil Bronstein, divorced her while she was recovering, adding to her already difficult circumstances.
However, the Casino alum stated that she wants others to understand that they can and should fight for their lives: “I would like to tell folks,
