Sharon Stone thought she stabbed an actor to death while making 'Basic Instinct'

• Sharon Stone thought she killed an actor while making "Basic Instinct," according to her memoir.
• Stone nearly passed out because of the "fury" of the scene and the director yelling "more blood."
• Her costar in the scene passed out due to her hitting him so hard.

There are a whole lot of revealing moments in Sharon Stone's memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice." Here's another one.

In looking back on shooting the steamy opening love scene of her legendary thriller, "Basic Instinct," Stone recalls that she thought she had killed the actor across from her.

In the scene, her character, Catherine Tramell, is having sex and then suddenly stabs her partner with an ice pick.

Stone recounts in the book that while shooting the sequence the actor she had "stabbed" wasn't responding after the scene ended.

"He just lay there, unconscious," Stone wrote. "I began to panic; I thought that the retractable fake ice pick had failed to retract and that I had in fact killed him."

"The fury of the sequence coupled with the director screaming, 'Hit him, harder harder!' and, 'More blood, more blood!' as the guy under the bed pumped more fake blood through the prosthetic chest had already made me weak. I got up, woozy, sure I would pass out," she continued.

Looking back, Stone wrote that in the moment she "was horrified, naked, and stained with fake blood."

"Basic Instinct" - in which Stone plays a writer who sets out on erotic escapades with a police detective (Michael Douglas) who believes she's the main suspect of a murder he's investigating - would go on to be a huge hit and make Stone an international star. But she said it didn't come without a price.

Stone wrote in the book that she had "hideous nightmares" while making "Basic Instinct" and during production slept-walked to her car multiple times fully dressed.

Stone also revealed in her memoir that she slapped "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven after watching the movie for the first time and seeing that her crotch was visible in the famous leg-crossing scene. During shooting, she was told by Verhoeven that it wasn't visible in the shot.

"The Beauty of Living Twice" is out now.