It’s a blockbuster movie with ultimately terrible consequences for Sharon Stone. On March 7, the American actress, now 64, said she lost custody of her child for a time because of her role in “Basic Instinct”. Released in 1992, this cult erotic thriller was particularly talked about for the “interrogation” scene, in which Sharon Stone was not wearing panties.
It’s in le podcast « Table for Two »relayed in particular by The Guardian, that the American confided. “I lost custody of my child,” she explains. The judge asked my child, my tiny little boy: Do you know your mom makes sex movies? “. Sharon Stone, who adopted her son Roan in 2000 with Phil Bronstein, before separating in 2004, then lost her “battle” against her ex-husband. He had obtained custody of the child, the judge considering that he was able to “offer him a more stable environment”. The actress only had visitation rights.
“I just wanted to hide in a hole”
“We decided what kind of parent I was based on my decision to make this film, she regretted. People walk around without clothes on TV. You saw me naked for maybe a sixteenth of a second, and I lost custody of my child,” she added. The same year, due to heart problems, she had to be hospitalized. “It literally broke my heart,” she continued.
The actress, who was 33 at the time of the filming, also recounts how she felt offended at the Golden Globes ceremony in 1993. Some of the congregation laughed when her name was mentioned among the nominees for Best Actress in a Drama. ” It was horrible. I was so humiliated,” she explains. “I just wanted to bury myself in a hole,” she finally concludes.
In 2022, Sharon Stone had already mentioned this trauma in “The Beauty of Living Twice”, her autobiography. She said that she had been duped by the director and had only heard of this scene during an official screening of the film, a version that Paul Verhoeven denies.