It’s taken a decade for Hollywood icon Sharon Stone to fully understand the extent of her injuries from a home invasion that left her unconscious, she revealed in a June 2026 appearance on CBS correspondent David Begnaud’s podcast “The Person Who Believed in Me.”
Stone, 68, recounted the terrifying incident to Bergnaud and said that she knew her attacker but didn’t press charges, unaware at the time how extensively she’d been hurt because she was unconscious and didn’t fully recall what happened.
Sharon Stone Believes Physical Effects of Prior Surgery Later Helped Her Survive Brutal Attack
Stone’s shocking account of the attack she endured came as she revealed that she underwent surgery after doctors found a giant tumor in her left breast, agreeing to have a mastectomy if it was found to be cancerous, which it was not.
“So I went to the hospital, they brought me in, they opened everything up, they took all of everything here,” she said, pointing to the left side of her chest and adding that the surgeon also “ended up taking half of the right side.”
“I was so bandaged and I was so messed up, that I was laying on my left side because the left side was so sore, and I couldn’t move my arms when this happened,” Stone said. “So part of that I think saved my life because when the impact of this thing happened to me, I don’t think I turned and moved the way a person normally would have. And I think that’s why the vertebral artery didn’t rupture all the way.”
Looking confused, Begnaud asked, “When the impact of what happened?” and Stone took a long pause.
“I don’t know how much I can tell about this,” she said slowly. “I was hit from behind.”
Bergnaud inquired, “By a person?” and she replied, “I believe so.”
Sharon Stone Learned the Extent of Her Injuries After Suffering From Chronic Pain
Opening up about the attack for the first time, Stone told Begnaud, “I didn’t really know ’til 10 years later what had happened to me because I woke up. I was unconscious on the floor. The two couches were sideways. The coffee table was all over the place. It was sort of upside down. Everything that had been on the coffee table was all over the floor and I didn’t know how I got there.”
Ten years after the attack, Stone said, she went to a neck and spine clinic in Marina Del Rey, California, to seek help for chronic pain in her head, neck and shoulders.
“They had given me propofol and they’d done a lot of X-rays of my front and back and all this stuff,” Stone said. “They were going to do some kind of injections into what they thought was arthritis in my neck and shoulders, and they had done all these preliminary X-rays of my thoracic rib cage and my neck and my shoulders and my spine and the doctor came in and he’s like, ‘We’re not going to be able to do this surgery.'”
The “Basic Instinct” star continued, “I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ And he’s like, ‘Your thoracic rib cage is all fractured and scarred back together. It’s clear that you were attacked and that what happened to you was a felony.'”
When Begnaud asked whether she then reported the crime to authorities, she told him, “I am not going to say (who it was) publicly, but I am going to say that we did report and we did do everything … I had the opportunity to press charges, but because it had been a decade and because I’m a public figure, I decided not to.”
Asked if it was a case of domestic violence, Stone said, “I’m not at liberty to say.”
