Sharon Stone suffered brain hemorrhage, two miscarriages in her troubled marriage with Phil Bronstein
Sharon Stone is writing a tell-all book that among other episodes in her life, will include details about her marriage to her second husband, Phil Bronstein.
The 'Basic Instinct' actress, 62, disclosed the news during a video chat with supermodel Naomi Campbell for her show 'No Filter With Noami.' She revealed that the memoir, titled, 'The Beauty Of Living Twice' will be released by the end of 2020 or by the beginning of next year.
Stone hasn't had the best luck when it comes to relationships in her life. She has been married twice, both of which ended in divorces. Out of the two, however, her marriage to Bronstein was filled with heartbreaking dramas.
Stone's first marriage to producer Michael Greenburg, ended a year later in 1987. She, however, moved to San Francisco in 1998 to settle in with the second husband, who was a newspaper editor. Due to her lupus-related rheumatoid factor, an autoimmune condition that made it difficult for her to carry a pregnancy to term - she had already suffered one miscarriage in her first marriage. When Stone and Bronstein tried getting pregnant in the traditional way, she ended up suffering two more miscarriages, both at five months.
The couple had also been in contact with an adoption agency on the side, due to her health condition and it finally paid off. "The last time I lost the baby," she says, "I went into 36 hours of labor. While we were at the hospital, our adoption attorney called. I thought, 'This is such a godsend," she told AARP magazine in 2012. The couple adopted Roan Joseph Bronstein in June 2000.
However, Stone barely got to enjoy being a first-time mother as she suffered a brain hemorrhage 15 months later and went into a coma. She was bedridden for the next eight months. "I came out of the hospital with short- and long-term memory loss," Stone told the publication. "My lower left leg was numb. I couldn't hear out of my right ear. The side of my face was falling down. I thought, 'I'll never be pretty again. Who's going to want to be around me?"
Things began to change in her relationship with Bronstein although Stone could not pinpoint at the causes of those changes. "He just didn't see me, talk to me, look at me," she said of her husband.
Looking back, however, the actress believed that "his initial intention with me was probably corrupt. I was suckered. I'm embarrassed to say that."
However, the tragedy culminated in 2003, when Bronstein filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences in their five-year marriage. At the time, his lawyer Nordin Blacker said that the couple was parting on friendly terms and that they both wanted joint custody of their adopted son.
"They are trying to achieve an amicable and mutual dissolution of their marriage and are committed to being parents of their child and to doing this in as friendly and non-controversial manner as possible," said Blacker. "There will be no drama here. They both have the interests of their three-year-old at heart and are trying to resolve this in a very private manner."
But there was drama. Sources said at the time that the couple's marriage has been under "enormous strain" for quite a while before the news of their separation as Stone spent an increasing amount of time in Los Angeles and abroad attempting to revive her movie career, IOL reported.
While Bronstein and Stone initially shared custody of Roan, settling on a two-year rotation period with each parent, in 2008, a San Francisco judge ruled that it would be disruptive to move Roan back and forth between Bay Area, where Bronstein was living and LA, where Stone was located. As a result, Bronstein was awarded primary physical custody
Stone said of the judge's decision at the time, "I had a brain hemorrhage and was an actress who had made sexy movies," adding, "I would go to these [philanthropic] events where I had to get on stage. I would be in the wings, with people looking at me, my head on the floor, praying: 'God, please help me. I know I have to go out there and raise money. But I've lost my child, I've lost my health, I've lost everything.' I was just broken."
She admitted last year that her saving grace was adopting two more sons on her own -- Laird and Quinn. Although "motherhood didn't come easily" it did help her understand her priorities in life.
"I’m now a single mother with three adopted sons, and it has been the great privilege of my life to raise them. When you adopt, you realise any child could be your child, any person could be your relative. After that you never see the world in the same way again. I’m connected to everyone on this planet. And that’s a miracle in and of itself," she told Vogue.