Sharon Stone Talks Mental Health, Says 'We're All Trying to Confront Our Demons — Me Too'
The actress and World Health Organization ambassador talked about mental health as a global — and personal — crisis
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Sharon Stone on 'Turkish Tea Talk with Alex Salmond'Sharon Stone shared her own struggles with mental health in an emotional interview.
“We're all trying to confront our demons and we're all acting out — me too,” the actress, 66, told host Alex Salmond during an appearance on Turkish Tea Talk, a news program in Turkey.
The actress, who skyrocketed to fame in the 1992 thriller Basic Instinct, shared that she still struggles with her memory after suffering a stroke in 2001 that led to a near-fatal brain hemorrhage.
“It's like the life that was this other person, that you can claim as your life but it doesn't feel like, ‘Oh I I was there, I did that.’”
“I didn't remember all of it for very long time, and I still don't remember all of it," Stone said, "but I get pieces of it back.”
Stone also talked about her work as an ambassador with the World Health Organization, and said that mental health is a problem “on a global level,” which she linked to the start of the Covid pandemic.
“Covid happened and we shut down the world and you had to be with just you.” the Casino star said. “Now that was great for people who wanted to learn to bake bread — the whole world wanted to learn to bake bread, right? Then people wanted to learn other languages. I wanted to get back to my painting.”
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“But for those people who don't like who they got to be with, one in 10 people on a global level are having a mental problem.”
Stone continued, “One in 10 on a global scale can't handle that already.”
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“The possibility of living with who you are as the only solid… people don't know who they are.”
The mom of three said that the journey to improve mental health “must start with the individual” being kind to themselves while also having accountability for their actions.
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Sharon Stone at an exhibit of her paintings in Berlin.“You must stand strong and when you blow it — okay, so what? That was two steps ago.," Stone said.
"You have to get back up and get yourself together and help whoever you think you bumped around, and keep moving forward.”
And, she added, it’s important to express “instant forgiveness for yourself. Instant forgiveness for whoever shoved you down.”
Then, she said, “Get back up and let's go.”
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