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Sharon Stone has said she knew her marriage was over when her husband called her decision to have a mastectomy ‘ridiculous’.
The actress, 68, was married to prominent investigative journalist Phil Bronstein from 1998 to 2004, but has recalled she knew their relationship was in trouble when he failed to support her choice during her cancer scare.
Speaking on David Begnaud’s The Person Who Believed in Me podcast, Sharon recalled how in the early 2000s she ‘had breast tumors, and one of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast.’
Her medical team told her there was a very high risk she had cancer and advised she undergo a bilateral mastectomy, telling her ‘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.’
Whilst she said she was certain that the tumors weren’t cancerous, the actress opted to play it safe and undergo a double mastectomy.
‘I am deciding that I will have a bilateral because I’m not f***ing around,’ she recalled saying at the time, but she said she did not receive support from her husband.
Sharon Stone has said she knew her marriage to Phil Bronstein was over when her husband called her decision to have a mastectomy ‘ridiculous’. Pictured in 2000
‘My husband said, “This is ridiculous,” she recalled on the podcast. ‘And got up and left the room.’
Host David Begnaud then asked the actress, ‘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 was true, might kill you?’ ‘No, no,’ the actress said.
Begnaud responded, ‘He was mad about the breasts being removed?’
Sharon confirmed, ‘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.”‘
The Basic Instinct actress said that that that confrontation marked a turning point in her relationship, stating: ‘That was the end of the marriage. That was it. He was done with me then. It was over.’
She added, ‘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.’
The couple divorced in 2004, citing irreconcilable differences.
The actress, 68, was married to the journalist from 1998 to 2004, but has recalled she knew their relationship was in trouble when he failed to support her during her cancer scare
Whilst she said she was certain that the tumors weren’t cancerous, the actress opted to play it safe and undergo a double mastectomy. ‘My husband said, “This is ridiculous,” she recalled
Sharon has previously recalled that whilst her tumours were benign when she had surgery to have them removed she woke to discover her doctor had increased her bust by a full cup-size without her consent.
She told The Times: ‘When I was un-bandaged, I discovered that I had a full cup-size bigger breasts, ones that he said, “go better with your hip size”.
The actress also overcame a near-fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage in 2001.
The health emergency left her with only a one percent chance of living and it took her years to learn how to walk and talk properly again, she said in her 2021 biography The Beauty Of Living Twice.
