HOLLYWOOD powerhouse Sharon Stone has told how she nearly didn’t make it as an actress as she came close to death TWICE as a youngster.
The Golden Globe winner has been struck by lightning and suffered a freak accident aged 14 when she was throttled by a washing line.
Incredibly, Sharon, 62 — whose leg-uncrossing scene in 1992 thriller Basic Instinct is one of the most iconic ever — almost died a third time when she suffered a stroke in 2001.
The actress, who grew up on a smallholding in the US state of Pennsylvania, said: “I’ve had a lot of things, it’s crazy. “I had my neck cut to a sixteenth of an inch from my jugular vein when I was 14 on a clothesline. “I’ve been hit by lightning and, wow, that was really intense.
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