Although she gained instant notoriety within Hollywood for her 1992 film "Basic Instinct," Sharon Stone admitted she lost custody of her son because of the role. "I lost custody of my child," Stone revealed of her son Roan on the "Table for Two" podcast with Bruce Bozzi. "The judge ask[ed] my child, my tiny little tiny boy, ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies,'" Stone recalled of her custody battle with ex-husband Phil Bronstein in 2004. "Like the kind of abuse by the system - this kind of abuse that I was considered ‘What kind of parent I was’ because I made that movie.
People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now. You saw maybe, like, maybe like a 16th of a second of possible nudity of me…and I lost custody - I lost custody of my child." In the aftermath of the custody battle, Stone said she was hospitalized. "I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in my upper and lower chamber of my heart.
When you say break your heart, it broke my heart. It literally broke…I went in to get a mammogram, and they're like ‘Something's wrong, we need you to do a treadmill test.’ All the doctors came running in, they're like ‘Woah,'" she recounted of losing Roan.
Despite losing custody of Roan, whom she adopted with Bronstein, she was able to maintain a close relationship with her son.
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