{"id":623440,"date":"2026-06-05T22:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623440\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:34:14","slug":"sharon-stone-reveals-mastectomy-decision-ended-her-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623440\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone reveals mastectomy decision ended her marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sharon Stone opened up about the devastating moment she knew her marriage was over.<\/p>\n

Stone recently revealed<\/a> that while facing a frightening health scare, she found herself at odds with her husband. His reaction to her decision ultimately became the breaking point in their relationship.<\/p>\n

The now 68-year-old actress recalled being warned that doctors believed suspicious masses in her breast could be cancerous.<\/p>\n

Stone did not mention her ex-husband by name but did share that he was a journalist. The actress was married to Phil Bronstein<\/a> from 1998 until 2004. At the time, Bronstein was a prominent newspaper executive. Her first husband was television and film producer and writer Michael Greenburg; she was married to Greenburg from 1984 until 1990.<\/p>\n

“And one of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast,” she said during an appearance on “The Person Who Believed In Me<\/a>” podcast. “It was all the way up into here. And the doctor had come out to my house and said, ‘Look, we think you should have a bilateral mastectomy. This is really bad. And we usually, when they’re all the way up into here, we know before we go in that they’re cancer.’ And I said, ‘I don’t have cancer.’ And he said, ‘You don’t get to decide that.’ And I said, ‘I do, I do get to decide that I’m deciding. But I am deciding that I will have a bilateral because I’m not f–king around.”<\/p>\n

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Sharon Stone said her husband became furious over her choice, prompting the actress to assert that she alone would make decisions about her own body. (Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for AARP)<\/p>\n

Stone claimed her husband’s response was immediate and negative: “…my husband said, ‘Wow, this is ridiculous.’ And got up and left the room.”<\/p>\n

The “Basic Instinct” star<\/a> explained that her then-husband was “furious” that she would choose to undergo a bilateral mastectomy. Stone recalled the doctor defending her decision and reminding her husband that the choice belonged to her.<\/p>\n

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Sharon Stone pictured with her second husband Phil Bronstein. (Guy Kinziger\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

“And so the doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down.’ And I said, ‘I make the decisions. Not you.'”<\/p>\n

“That was the end of the marriage,” Stone recalled. “That was it. He was done with me. Then it was over.”<\/p>\n

Stone clarified that a decision to end the marriage wasn’t necessarily made that day.<\/p>\n

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According to Sharon Stone, the exchange marked the instant their relationship was over, saying she could tell “it was just over in the room.” (Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images for TCM)<\/p>\n

“It was just over in the room,” Stone said. “You could just tell it was over.”<\/p>\n

“He thought I was ridiculous,” she claimed. “He thought I was foolish. He thought I was making too many decisions myself.”<\/p>\n

Stone was right and doctors discovered her tumors were benign during a biopsy.<\/p>\n

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Sharon Stone married Phil Bronstein in 1998. (Pool Benainous\/Duclos\/Gamma-Rapho\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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