Sharon Stone has claimed that her ex-husband was “done” with her after she told him she wanted to get a double mastectomy during a major health scare.
The actor, 68, discovered she had made multiple “gigantic” tumors in her breasts in 2001, which she publicly revealed in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. She ultimately learned that the tumors were benign and had them surgically removed.
However, during Monday’s episode of David Begnaud’s The Person Who Believed In Me podcast, she said that after she initially received her diagnosis, she was prepared to get a mastectomy.
“One of [the tumors] was bigger than the size of my entire left breast,” the Basic Instinct star said. “The doctor had come out to my house and said, ‘Look, we think you should have a bilateral mastectomy. This is really bad. And we usually, when they’re all the way up into here, we know before we go in that they’re cancer.”
“And I said, ‘I don’t have cancer,’ and he said, ‘You don’t get to decide that.’ And I said, ‘I do get to decide that. But I am deciding that I will have a bilateral, because I’m not f***ing around.’ And my husband said, ‘This is ridiculous.’ And got up and left the room.
“Which part was ridiculous?” Begnaud asked, to which Stone responded, “That I would have a bilateral. He was furious.”
“Oh, not that the cancer, if it was true, might kill you?” the podcast host continued, before the actor said: “No, no.”
When Begnaud asked if Stone’s ex was angry about the “breasts being removed,” she replied: “Yeah. And so the doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down.’ And I said, ‘I make the decisions, not you.’
“That was the end of the marriage. That was it. He was done with me,” she added. “It was just over in the room. You could just tell. It was over. He thought I was ridiculous. He thought it was foolish. He thought I was making too many decisions myself.”
Stone ultimately decided not to undergo the double mastectomy after she learned her tumors were benign.
Although she didn’t mention her ex-husband by name on the podcast, the Casino star was married to journalist Phil Bronstein — with whom she shares an adopted son, Roan, 26 — from 1998 to 2004. Before that, she was married to TV producer Michael Greenburg for six years.
Stone has previously spoken about undergoing surgery to get the tumors removed. During an interview with The Times in 2021, she said that when she woke up from the procedure, she was shocked to learn that her doctor had increased the size of her breasts without her consent.
“When I was un-bandaged, I discovered that I had a full cup size bigger breasts,” she said, adding that the doctor had told her the larger breasts “go better with your hip size.” She said that when she confronted him over the issue, he said he “thought that [she] would look better with bigger, better boobs.”
