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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Sharon Stone is "choosing to be happy" after her past traumas

    The 66-year-old actress suffered a near-fatal brain hemorrhage almost 25 years ago that left her penniless and with no choice but to rebuild her career but admitted that all this time later she has "disciplined" herself to still have a cheery disposition.


    She told Fox News Digital: "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."

    The 'Basic Instinct' star recently opened up about the advice she would like to give her younger self, and wished she knew that everything was going to work out in the end,

    She told the BBC: "[I'd tell myself that] you're going to make it. 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. 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."

    "We can choose to b**** and moan, or we can choose joy. I think you have to just keep choosing.

    "Stay present. You fell down. Get up. Someone pushed you down. Now they want to help you up. Let them."

    The Hollywood actress also admitted that the whole incident had "O=one hundred percent" changed her outlook on life.

    Asked if the stroke had changed the way she thought, she told The Hollywood Reporter: "Totally. One hundred percent. A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body. I had a death experience and then they brought me back. I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn't positioned in my head where it was before. And while that was happening, everything changed. My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn't read for a couple of years. Things were stretched and I was seeing color patterns. A lot of people thought I was going to die.

    "People took advantage of me over that time. I had $18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone - everything was in other people's names.

    "I had zero money."

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