Sharon Stone claims her marriage broke down after she decided to undergo a mastectomy.
“I had had breast tumors, and one of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast,” Stone, 68, said on the Monday, June 1, episode of the “Person Who Believed in Me” podcast. “The doctor had come out to my house and said, ‘Look, we think you should have a bilateral mastectomy. This is really bad.’”
Stone quickly decided to go through with the procedure.
“I am deciding that I will have a bilateral because I’m not f***ing around,” she said. “My husband said, ‘This is ridiculous,’ and got up and left the room. … He was furious.”
Stone was married to Michael Greenburg from 1984 to 1990, later tying the knot with Phil Bronstein in 1998 before their 2004 divorce. Stone, who is a mom of three adopted sons, did not name which ex-husband she was referring to on Monday’s podcast episode.
“The doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down,’” Stone recalled. “I said, ‘I make the decisions, not you.’ That was the end of the marriage. That was it. He was done with me then, it was over.”
According to Stone, her husband thought she was “foolish” and “ridiculous” for deciding to remove her breasts.
“He thought I was making too many decisions myself,” she alleged. “I went to the hospital and I told them, ‘We need to work this out.’ I come in at night ‘cause, obviously, the fame was too big a deal. They brought me in at night, they closed everybody’s rooms [and] they brought me in.”
Stone’s doctors “took all of everything” from her left breast, as well as “half of the right side.”
“By the time I came to, there were 10 [or] 12 people around my bed. I open my eyes and looked up and said, ‘What is going on?’” she recalled while reflecting on her recovery. “They went, ‘You don’t have cancer,’ and I said, ‘I know.’”
As for Stone, it was innate that she would fight a cancer diagnosis.
“I’m not a quitter,” she stated. “My dad got esophageal cancer and had a 3 percent chance of survival and had an inoperable tumor and beat it. … He had made a lot of fun of my Buddhism and my attitudes and my hands-on healing and all my stuff, [but my parents] flew out [for his cancer treatment].”
