Sharon Stone: I felt like I died
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Sharon Stone has described seeing a “white light” after suffering an aneurysm in 2001.
In the new Closer Weekly magazine cover story, the 58-year-old said she also saw her dead friends after experiencing a terrifying subarachnoid brain haemorrhage.
“I feel that I did die,” the Hollywood star said. “This kind of giant vortex of white light was upon me and — poof! I sort of took off into this glorious, bright white light.”
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The "Basic Instinct" star, who was married to journalist Phil Bronstein at the time, continued: “I started to see and be met by some of my friends ... people who were very, very dear to me [who had died]. I had a real journey with this that took me to places both here and beyond.
“But it was very fast — whoosh! Suddenly, I was back. I was in my body.”
The mother-of-three said of the experience: “It affected my life so profoundly that it will never be the same.”
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The "Total Recall" actress said she’s no longer afraid of death.
“I get not to be afraid of dying and I get to tell other people that it’s a fabulous thing and death is a gift,” she said.
“When death comes to you, as it will, it’s a glorious and beautiful thing. I had an incredible sense of wellbeing and a sense that it’s just so near. Death — it’s very near and very safe. It’s not a far away or scary thing.”
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Stone had to relearn basic functions after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage 15 years ago.
“I bled in my brain for nine days. I spent two years learning to walk and talk again,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.
“I came home from that stroke stuttering, couldn’t read for two years. I was in an ICU for nine days and the survival rate for what I went through is very low.”
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