Although Sharon Stone has brought so many amazing characters to life over the years, it appears one particular role cost her everything. The actress recently opened up about how her 1992 appearance in Basic Instinct led to losing custody of her then 8-year-old son. We can't believe this even played a part a part in the judge's decision!
The film turned Sharon into a household name.
Sharon starred alongside Michael Douglass in the thriller, which featured a whole lot of hot and heavy sexual escapades as well as one of the most iconic leg-crossing scenes in the history of cinema.
It may not be anything scandalous by today's standards, but back then it was a new take on mainstream film, and it was significant enough that it caught the eye of a judge Sharon was appearing in front of.
Sharon opened up about how it changed her personal life, sharing some details during a new podcast interview.
During Tuesday's episode of Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi, Sharon confessed that she'd actually lost custody of her then 8-year-old son because of her appearance in the film.
"When the judge asked my child — my tiny little boy, 'Do you know your mother makes sex movies?' This kind of abuse by the system, that it was considered what kind of parent I was because I made that movie," she recalled.
She blames nudity for the judge's decision.
Sharon was fighting at the time for primary custody of her son Roan, whom she had adopted with her ex-husband Phil Bronstein.
"People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like a sixteenth of a second of possible nudity of me — and I lost custody of my child," she continued.
The custody decision put Sharon in the hospital with what she called a broken heart.
Sharon says she started feeling poorly after the verdict. "I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart," she confessed. "It broke my heart."
These days, Sharon and Roan, who is now 22, have a great relationship, and he even filed documents to have his name legally changed in 2019 to add his mother's last name to his own, according to Page Six.
Sharon's story says a lot about how far we have (and haven't) come.
"Now people walk around showing their penises on Netflix, but, in the olden days, what we were doing was very new," she said of the flick.
We're glad to hear Sharon's relationship with her kids is back on track, but learning how not even her Hollywood status could keep her from becoming a victim of a sexist court system still makes us frustrated for her.
