Sharon Stone reveals devastating fallout of appearance in Basic Instinct

Actress Sharon Stone has revealed the devastating impact appearing in the R-rated film Basic Instinct had on her personal life in a raw new interview.

Sharon Stone has revealed how her role in Basic Instinct took a huge personal toll when she lost custody of her son.

Sharon Stone has opened up about one of the biggest movies of her career in a new interview, revealing it had a huge personal cost for her.

Appearing on Table For Two With Bruce Bozzi, the award-winning actress looked back on what it was like working on her 1992 hit Basic Instinct. Despite it being a career-defining movie for the actress, she said her appearance in the film had a massive personal toll, Decider reports.

“I lost custody of my child,” she said. “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.”

Stone had adopted Roan with her then-husband Phil Bronstein in 2000. When Bronstein filed for divorce in 2003, the judge denied her request for full custody of their son in favour of Bronstein.

The noir erotic thriller was a career-defining movie role for the actress.

But it had a devastating personal impact. Picture: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

She explained that the experience was so stressful for her that she developed health problems. “I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she said, explaining losing her son “broke my heart”.

“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 said.

The actress, who won a Golden Globe for her 1995 performance in Casino, pointed out that the industry can get away with a lot more now in television and movies than you could back then.

“Now people walk around showing their penises on Netflix, but, in the olden days, what we were doing was very new,” she said.

“This was a feature film for a major studio, and we had nudity, sex, homosexuality, all these things that, in my era, were breaking norms.”

This article originally appeared in Decider and was republished with permission

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