The 13 biggest reveals from Sharon Stone's new memoir, from paying Leonardo DiCaprio's salary to slapping the 'Basic Instinct' director

Jacob SarkisianApr 2, 2021, 17:23 IST

Sharon Stone's memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice," is out now.Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Sharon Stone's new memoir "The Beauty of Living Twice" is out now.
Stone reveals some dramatic incidents from her life and career as a model and actress.

Sharon Stone says she slapped 'Basic Instinct' director Paul Verhoeven after seeing her famous leg-crossing scene for the first time

Sharon Stone starred in "Basic Instinct." "Basic Instinct"/TriStar Pictures

A producer asked her to sleep with a costar to improve their on-screen chemistry

Sharon Stone is an Oscar-nominated actress. Araya Diaz/Getty Images

She says a surgeon once gave her bigger breasts without her consent

Sharon Stone had tumors removed from her breasts in 2001. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

A stalker who wrote letters to her with post stamps got closer and closer to her house until he hand-delivered one

Sharon Stone starred in "Basic Instinct." Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb

Sharon Stone paid Leonardo DiCaprio's 'The Quick and the Dead' salary because the studio didn't want to hire him

"The Quick and the Dead" starred Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Gene Hackman. TriStar Pictures

An agent once told Sharon Stone she wanted to throw her down the stairs to bounce the fat off of her

Sharon Stone was a model before she was an actress. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Stone was almost decapitated by a clothes line as a kid while trying to break a wild horse

Sharon Stone suffered an almost fatal accident when she was 14. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

She says brain surgery left her unable to walk two weeks before her famous Oscar dance with John Travolta

John Travolta and Sharon Stone presented the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at the 2002 Oscars. The Oscar went to the Bosnian movie "No Man's Land." REUTERS / Gary Hershorn

Sharon Stone once fired a doctor who told People magazine of her bleeding brain and signed her up for exploratory brain surgery without her consent

Sharon Stone suffered brain haemorrhage in 2001. Phillip Faraone/FilmMagic

Stone says she's felt 'pitted against' Madonna, but that she 'secretly champions' her

Sharon Stone and Madonna are good friends. George Pimentel/WireImage

Stone said she was 'harassed constantly' when she worked as a fry girl in McDonald's as a kid

Sharon Stone's first job was as a fry girl in McDonald's. Jason Kempin/Getty

Stone says she was given a botched root canal in a trailer on a film set

Sharon Stone has suffered many injuries throughout her film career. Getty Images

Stone crossed state borders to have a secret abortion aged 18

Sharon Stone went to Ohio to have an abortion when she was younger. John Milner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Dustin Johnson just sold his Florida mansion with a private island for $16.5 million after a total renovation

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