Sharon Stone crossed state lines to have an abortion at age 18 and was too afraid to tell her family – Daily Mail

Sharon Stone has revealed that she got an abortion after falling pregnant by ‘her first serious boyfriend’ at the age of 18.

The actress, 63, recalls the incident in the pages of her recently released memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, blaming her ‘extreme country background’ and ‘sexual inexperience’ for her teen pregnancy.

Stone was driven by her then-boyfriend to Ohio because she was ‘too young’ to get an abortion in her home state of Pennsylvania, as per an excerpt published by The Sun on Wednesday.

After the procedure, Sharon ‘stayed in [her] room and bled for days’ because she was ‘too afraid to tell anyone.’ 

‘When she finally came out, she burned her bloody sheets and clothes before going straight back to school,’ the outlet summarized of the traumatic incident. 

The Basic Instinct star’s candid memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, which hit shelves on Tuesday, is riddled with bombshells about the star’s colorful life.

Sharon, before making the big move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business, grew up in ‘near poverty in Pennsylvania’s Amish country’ and was subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of her late father, whom she has since forgiven.

‘I was dragged through the kitchen to the basement to get the crap strapped out of me with a belt,’ she writes in her memoir. ‘I wised up to that pretty quick and started bathing and putting on my nightgown and pink fuzzy robe very early, as I could put a big, soft paperback book in my underpants and not get found out.’ 

At the age of eight, Sharon also witnessed her ‘maternal grandfather sexually abuse her five-year-old sister Kelly, while their grandmother stood.’

Stone, who worked at McDonalds and as a waitress as a teenager, always had her sights set on Hollywood, while her parents saw acting as a ‘frivolous profession.’

It was not until her older brother Mike’s dealings with drugs landed him in jail that her parents felt it would be beneficial to get Sharon out of Pennsylvania.

‘With the incredible violence with which Mike was arrested and his business partners and their spouses were arrested, beaten, killed, and so forth, my parents began to believe that they should get me out of town.

‘I of course agreed, for those reasons and my own,’ she wrote.

Stone recalled her mother taking her to NYC to meet Ford Models’ Eileen Ford, after looking her up in the Yellow Pages.

‘For two hicks it was rather amazing that we even found the place and saw Eileen. She told me she would like to throw me down the flight of stairs I had just come up and bounce the fat off of my a**. But that she would take me,’ writes the actress.

From there, Sharon landed a role in Wood Allen’s 1980 film Stardust Memories, which ended up being the catalyst that would convince her to move to Los Angeles and to narrow in on an acting career.

In her memoir, Stone details appearing in a ‘bunch of crap movies and so-so television’, as well as landing a role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led Total Recall in 1990, that led up to her star-making role in Basic Instinct, which hit theaters in 1992.

Sharon famously starred opposite Michael Douglas in the sexually-charged thriller, whom she admitted ‘did not want her to even screen test’ for the film.

‘Hey, I was a nobody compared to him, and this was such a risky movie,’ she wrote of Douglas’ early dismissal. Sharon would go on to land the role after ’12 other actresses’ turned it down.  

She would go onto earn a Golden Globe, after starring in Martin Scorsese’s Casino with fellow Hollywood veteran Robert de Niro.

Diving into her health struggles over the past several decades, Sharon recalled unexpectedly tearing one her arteries in 2001, which caused a ‘stroke with bleeding in her brain and spine.’

Stone, who had ‘a one per cent chance of survival and underwent a mammoth nine-hour brain operation,’ had to endure a lengthy recovery period.

The traumatic injury affected her hearing, short term memory, as well as her ability to get around, speak without stuttering, and her vision.

‘I sometimes wonder if I had my own stroke because I let myself get too far off of my natural path, too far away from my true journey in life. I wonder if the body cries out when we are not following our natural truth,’ she wrote. 

She also delves into her marriages to producer Michael Greenburg, 69, and journalist Phil Bronstein, 70, whom she lost custody of their adopted three-year-old son Roan to when they divorced in 2004.

‘I couldn’t function,’ wrote Sharon of losing primary custody of her son, which she believes caused her to have a prolapsed valve that led her developing anorexia. 

After a ‘very long, very difficult game of custody chess’ – 13 years to be exact – a now 20-year-old Roan lives with his mother, as well as his adopted siblings Laird, 15, and Quinn, 14.

In her memoir, Sharon also devoted an entire chapter about the #MeToo movement in Hollywood and her own experiences with sexism, which she spoke about briefly in an interview with L’Officiel.

‘Sex has long been expected in my craft,’ the mother-of-three told  the outlet on Wednesday, which was translated from Italian.

‘I certainly didn’t sleep [with anyone] to get into the business. But that didn’t stop me from being sexually-abused all my life by people I knew and who I did not know.’   

One such unnamed filmmaker reportedly expected Sharon to sit on his lap while taking direction.

‘For me, it’s called show business, not show take advantage of everyone. I don’t get taken advantage of either. Yes, I have been asked or told to do things that are wildly inappropriate, but I use my big-girl voice and say no,’ wrote the star in her memoir.

Stone’s tell-all tome detailed how her late maternal grandfather Clarence not only abused his wife, but he sexually-abused herself and her sister Kelly as children.

The abuse trickled down to the Pennsylvania-born blonde’s strained relationship with her 87-year-old mother Dorothy ‘Dot’ Marie, who now shares her West Hollywood home.

‘I read [Dot] the first draft, I recorded her thoughts in the book, and I dedicated it to her,’ Sharon noted. 

Stone – whose IQ is reportedly 154 – likened her literary debut to a ‘unique and lonely journey’ that’s ‘hard for everyone else to grasp.’

The Never Before songwriter said: ‘When you reveal yourself to the rest of the world, you feel like a vampire who has been stuck in a box for 200 years, coming out saying ‘Sunshine!”

Sharon – who serves as amfAR’s global campaign chair – compared how the US government has dealt with the coronavirus versus the AIDS epidemic.

‘It was like seeing the AIDS crisis at high speed. There was the same disinterest, denial, and lies. AIDS wasn’t just a gay disease. It became the number one killer of women in their reproductive years,’ Stone said.

‘If COVID wasn’t a warning to people to get their heads right, the planet itself will straighten it out. Nature itself is a great teacher.’

The Ratched actress will next bring her four-date virtual book tour to New York’s Barnes & Noble where she’ll chat with Jess Cagle on Wednesday night at 7pm EST.