Sharon Stone revealed she was physically assaulted by an unnamed perpetrator some years ago.
“I was hit from behind,” the Oscar nominee shared on Monday’s episode of CBS correspondent David Begnaud’s “The Person Who Believed in Me” podcast.
“By a person?” Begnaud asked, to which Stone replied, “I believe so. Yes.”
The 68-year-old actress said she doesn’t have any memories of the attack because she woke up afterwards “unconscious on the floor.”
“The two couches were sideways. The coffee table was all over the place. It was sort of upside down,” she recalled. “Everything that had been on the coffee table was all over the floor and I didn’t know how I got there.”
The “Basic Instinct” actress said ten years after the incident, she went to a neck and spine clinic in Marina Del Rey, California because she was dealing with neck and shoulder pain.
“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,'” Stone recalled.
Stone said she learned in that moment her thoracic rib cage was “fractured and scarred back together.”
The doctor also told Stone, “It’s clear that you were attacked and that what happened to you was a felony. And we have to report it to the police and to everyone and you have to report it.”
Stone said she “had a panic attack” despite being on propofol, a medication used to induce and maintain unconsciousness during surgeries.
But the doctor and nurses calmed Stone down, she said, and “were able to take me back through the incident and help me understand what happened to me.”
When asked by Begnaud who attacked her, Stone responded, “I am not going to say 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,” she added.
The “Catwoman” actress revealed she’s “quite certain” who attacked her but doesn’t regret exposing them publicly because she “would’ve had a hard time in court a decade later.”
Stone added, “I’m quite sure I had enough circumstantial evidence to make sort of a case, but I did not want that to be my legacy.”
When Begnaud asked if the incident was “domestic violence,” Stone answered, “I’m not at liberty to say.”
Stone was previously married to TV producer Michael Greenberg from 1984 to 1990 and newspaper editor Phil Bronstein from 1998 to 2004.
She was also engaged to TV producer William J. MacDonald and first assistant director Bob Wagner in the mid-1990s.

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