Hollywood star Sharon Stone has opened up about her brutal experience overcoming a “freaking” drug addiction, revealing how she finally got her life back after decades of addiction to stroke drugs and cannabis.
Speaking to digital magazine Nineteen92 during an interview at her Beverly Hills estate, the iconic actress described her difficult journey toward a completely drug-free lifestyle, which began when she decided to stop taking a long-term medication prescribed after her near-fatal stroke in 2001.
Stone explained that despite doctors telling her she could never get off the medication, she insisted on stopping last September, describing the intense withdrawal process as coming off heroin.
She remembered feeling as sick as a dog for four and a half months, driven solely by the desire to get her life back.
Having already eliminated most of the prescription drugs she had been on over the years, the actress decided to take the final step and quit smoking pot as well.
But quitting cannabis brought another severe bout of illness that lasted a month, which her neurologist explained was linked to the dangerous additives often found in modern marijuana compared to when she was younger, noting that people have even died in emergency rooms from it.
The journey to sobriety coincides with a major creative rebirth for the star, whose longtime passion for painting has recently turned into a thriving global career.
After studying art in college before dropping out to work as a model in New York with just $50 and a suitcase, Stone revived her artistic obsession during the COVID lockdown.
What started with a few canvases in her bedroom eventually led to her stripping the room of its furniture, putting nails directly into her walls and living in a makeshift artist loft.
