Sharon Stone says she was physically assaulted: ‘I was hit from behind’

Sharon Stone was physically assaulted, but she didn’t realize it for 10 years.

The “Basic Instinct” actress told David Begnaud on his “The Person Who Believed in Me” podcast, “I don’t know how much I can tell about this. I was hit from behind.”

She continued, “I didn’t really know until 10 years later what had happened to me because I woke up, I was unconscious on the floor. The two couches were sideways. The coffee table was all over the place. It was sort of upside down. Everything that had been on the coffee table was all over the floor and I didn’t know how I got there.”

10 years later, Stone went to a doctor because of back and neck problems. “I went to a neck and spine clinic in Marina Del Rey, and they had given me propofol and they’d done a lot of X-rays of my front and back and all this stuff,” she said. “They were going to do some kind of injections into what they thought was arthritis in my neck and shoulders, and they had done all these preliminary X-rays of my thoracic rib cage and my neck and my shoulders and my spine, and the doctor came in and he’s like, ‘We’re not going to be able to do this surgery.’”

Stone said the doctor told her, “‘Your thoracic rib cage is all fractured and scarred back together. And it’s clear that you were attacked and that what happened to you was a felony.’”

The Oscar nominee declined to name her attacker but did say she reported the attack. “I had the opportunity to press charges, but because it had been a decade and because I’m a public figure, I decided not to,” she said.

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