Sharon Stone decided to end her second marriage due to the way her then-husband reacted during her terrifying health scare.
During Monday’s episode of David Begnaud’s “The Person Who Believed In Me” podcast, the “Basic Instinct” actress said she learned she had tumors in her breasts in the early 2000s.
“One of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast,” she recalled. “And 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.’”
Stone, 68, said she was certain that her tumors were benign.
“I said, ‘I don’t have cancer,’” she shared on the podcast. “And [the doctor] said, ‘You don’t get to decide that.’ And I said, ‘I do. I do get to decide that. I’m deciding.’”
Ultimately, the “Casino” star said she decided she would undergo the surgery “because I’m not f–king around.”
However, Stone’s then-husband made it clear that he did not support her decision.
“My husband said, ‘This is ridiculous,’” she remembered. “And got up and left the room.”
Podcast host Begnaud then asked the Stone, “Which part was ridiculous?”
She responded, “That I would have a bilateral [mastectomy]. He was furious.”
Begnaud asked, “Oh, not that the cancer, if it [were] true, might kill you?”
“No, no,” Stone replied.
The Oscar nominee said her husband was upset because she would have to have both of her breasts removed.
“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,’” she shared.
Stone said her husband’s reaction ultimately led to the demise of their relationship.
“That was the end of the marriage. That was it. He was done with me then. It was over,” she claimed.
“It was just over in the room. You could just tell. It was over. It was just over. He thought I was ridiculous. He thought it was foolish. He thought I was making too many decisions myself,” Stone added.
Though Stone did not name anyone, she was married to her second husband, Phil Bronstein, from 1998 to 2004.
The “Catwoman” actress’s tumors ended up being benign and she did not have to undergo a double mastectomy.
In 2021, Stone revealed that when she had the surgery to remove the tumors, the doctor allegedly gave her larger breast implants without her consent.
Page Six has reached out to Bronstein for comment but did not immediately hear back.
