#SharonStone has every reason to be tough.
In 2001, nine years after she played the part of the panty-less serial killer Catherine Tramell in Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 “Basic Instinct,” which had catapulted her to superstardom, she had a vertebral artery rupture, a nine-day brain bleed and a stroke that took her seven years to come back from. During that time, she lost custody of her adopted son, Roan, now 26. (She has since adopted two more boys on her own, Laird, 21, and Quinn, 20.) “And I lost my place in the business,” she says, “and had to start from the bottom all over again.”
When asked how she got her career back, she says simply, “I didn’t.” But in fact, Stone has made more than 40 movies, including Martin Scorsese’s 1995 “Casino,” opposite Robert De Niro, for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for a best actress Oscar. She’s also appeared on TV, including recently as a Sherry Lansing-style Hollywood executive opposite Sydney Sweeney in Season 3 of “Euphoria.” At the...