“I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she revealed. Sharon was left so devastated by the judge’s decision that it had a physical impact on her wellbeing. “People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like a 16th of a second of possible nudity of me - and I lost custody of my child,” she added. “When the judge asked my child - my tiny little boy, ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies?’ Like, this kind of abuse by the system, that I was considered what kind of parent I was, because I made that movie,” she said.

That scene had an impact on Stone’s career, as well as her personal life.ĭuring an episode of the Table for Two podcast, Stone claimed that she lost custody of her child with ex-husband Phil Bronstein partially due to Basic Instinct. Why? Because it was correct for the film and for the character and because, after all, I did it.” So I thought and thought and I chose to allow this scene in the film. “I was just an actress, just a woman what choices could I have?” she wrote. “I just need you to remove your panties,” she was told, “as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on.” Stone saw the scene for the first time in a “a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project.” After the screening, Stone walked up to director Paul Verhoeven and slapped him. In her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, actress Sharon Stone revealed how she was tricked into her famous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct. Basic Instinct (1992) follows the life of a beautiful crime novelist, Catherine Tramell, who becomes a suspect after the brutal death of a rock star.

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