It’s been 24 years since Sharon Stone nearly died from a brain bleed that she now says altered the course of her life forever. Despite this, she’s found a way to stay positive and wants to share that outlook with others.
Stone’s Secret To Staying Happy
On Sunday night, Stone presented the best foreign film award at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. As she walked the red carpet before the ceremony, Stone revealed her secret to staying happy even after so many setbacks in life.
“I think that you get to choose how you view the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And so that’s what I do,” Stone, 66, told Fox News.
Stone’s Advice To Her Younger Self
This comes one month after Stone broke down in tears while telling BBC News what advice she’d give her younger self.
“You’re going to make it,” the emotional former Basic Instinct star said. “You don’t know it, but you’re going to make it. I would have it tattooed on the inside of my eyelids. I would have wanted to have known it so many times.”
“When I was on the floor and couldn’t get an ambulance,” she continued. “When I went home [from the hospital] and I read in People magazine that we wouldn’t know for 30 days if I was going to live or die.”
Stone believes that she became “a very different person” after her 2001 brain hemorrhage.
“We can choose to [expletive] and moan, or we can choose joy. I think you have to just keep choosing joy,” Stone advised. “Stay present. You fell down. Get up. Someone pushed you down. Now they want to help you up. Let them.”
And get back up Stone did! Check Stone out on the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday. Indeed, just looking at her, you would never know all that this woman has been through!
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Stone’s ‘Near-Death Experience’
Stone further opened up about her brain bleed in May of last year, describing it as a “near-death experience.”
“I went to the first hospital and had an MRI and had this near-death experience and then was transferred to a specialized hospital. I continued to bleed into my brain for nine days before my best friend convinced [the doctors] to look again,” Stone recalled. “Thank God they did, because they realized what was going on and how it had happened and were able to repair it at the last moment.”
“It was really one of those beautiful miracles,” she added. “Of course, I’m a different person. I have an invisible disability. People can help you when they see you are walking with crutches, but when you are having a bit of a problem with brain function, people don’t know that you need help with that.”
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Stone’s Hollywood Career Derailed
It took seven long years for Stone to recover from this brain hemorrhage. She believes to this day that it derailed her career.
“That’s a long time to lose your momentum,” the Oscar-nominated former Casino actress explained. “In seven years, you’re no longer the flavor of the time, you no longer have box-office heat, the same people you were working with are no longer in power anymore.”
“Everything changes and people don’t really care about that person anymore,” she continued. “It’s like going back to your old job seven years later … you don’t just walk back into your job and think nothing’s changed. I was sort of hurt that the world moved on without me. But I’ve kind of gotten over it now.”
It’s a sad but true expression of the “what have you done for me lately” phenomenon.
Hopefully, presenting at the Golden Globes will help to raise Stone’s profile and garner her more work in Hollywood once again. In the end, we could all learn a lot from her strategy of choosing happiness, even in the face of great adversity!
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