Sharon Stone’s philosophy: Staying positive after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage and financial struggles

Sharon Stone continues to choose to be happy 24 years after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage that forever changed the course of her life.

Before presenting the award for best foreign film at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday night, Stone told Fox News Digital that she believes people have a choice about how they view the world.

“I think you can choose how you see the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And that’s what I do,” Stone said.

The iconic actress, who rose to fame in the 1990s with breakout roles in “Basic Instinct” and “Casino,” spoke to BBC News in December about the advice she would give to her younger self.

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“You’re going to make it,” Stone told the outlet through tears. “You don’t know, but you’ll get there. I’ll have it tattooed on the inside of my eyelids. I wish I knew so many times.”

“I think you can choose how you see the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And that’s what I do.”

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She continued: “When I was on the ground and I couldn’t get an ambulance. When I got home (from the hospital) and I read in People magazine that we wouldn’t know until 30 days if I was going to live or die.”

After her brain hemorrhage in 2001, Stone told the outlet she became “a very different person.” She explained that even her food tastes had changed.

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Despite all this, Stone chose to be resilient.

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“We can choose to fuck and moan, or we can choose joy. I think you have to continue to choose joy,” Stone told BBC News. “Stay present. You’ve fallen. Get up. Someone pushed you down. Now they want to help you get up. Let them.”

In May, Stone appeared on the British show “Hello Great Britain” and explained how her career pivoted significantly from acting to activism after suffering a “near death experience.”

“I went to the first hospital and had an MRI and got this near death experience 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,” she said at the time. “Thank God they did, because they realized what was happening and how it happened and were able to fix it at the last moment.

“It really was 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 walk with crutches, but when you have a little problem with brain function, people don’t know it. You need help with this.”

The actress, who spent more than 20 years as an activist for the World Health Organization, said her first stage of recovery lasted about “seven years.”

“It takes a long time to lose momentum,” she said.

“In seven years you’re out of fashion, you’re out of box office buzz, the same people you were working with are no longer in power,” she added. “Everything changes and people don’t really care about that person anymore. It’s like going back to your old job seven years later…you don’t just come back to your job thinking nothing’s changed.”

“I was kind of hurt that the world was moving on without me,” she admitted. “But I’m kind of over it now.”

In 2023, Stone further explained how his medical scare had a significant impact on his career.

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“I had a 1% chance of survival. I had a brain hemorrhage for nine days. I recovered for seven years and haven’t had a job since,” she said at the luncheon. “Raising Our Voices” in June 2023. “My contract changed. I have a maximum day of 14 hours. When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anyone because, you know, if something is wrong with you, you’re missing. I’ve been missing for 20 years,” she said.

“I didn’t have a job. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life. I’ve broken a lot of glass ceilings with the top of my head,” she admitted.

“I would have loved to be heard, but since I wasn’t, I decided to work so that you could be heard,” she continued. “I have spent over 20 years working for the World Health Organization, for the United Nations, for governments around the world so that you can be heard. It is important to me that your diversity is not erased because anti-wake bulls — idea in our country.

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Speaking to Willie Geist on “Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist” in 2021, Stone, who is now a dedicated artist and painter, said she has now found peace in her life.

“I’m really grateful,” she said. “When I was a kid, I always wanted a house full of running, screaming kids and dogs, and I got it. And I feel very lucky and happy with the life I’ve had . We are happy together, and what could be better than that?

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“There’s nothing freer than staying focused on yourself,” Stone added. “I tell my friends that my new mantra is: ‘It’s never too late to become yourself.'”

Christina Dugan Ramirez of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.