Sharon Stone is opening up about the stroke she suffered in 2001.
The 63-year-old actress recently spoke to TODAY’s Willie Geist about the life-threatening incident.
"You (told your mom), 'You better get here quickly. Did you feel in that moment, Sharon, like you might die?” he asked.
Stone recalled: "the room was so silent."
"When the room is so silent and no one's running around trying to fix you, that's when you realize how near death is and how serious everything is,” she elaborated .
Geist mentioned Stone’s new memoir “The Beauty of Living Twice” noting: "You write about the light, the feeling of falling, seeing people who had passed.”
In the memoir, Stone recalls her near-death experience and seeing friends who had passed away in a vision by her bedside telling her not to be afraid.
“It was so . . . mystical. I wanted to know it. I wanted to immerse myself,” she wrote.
When she made the “choice to survive,” she recalled awaking with “the kind of gasp you take when you are underwater far too long.”
She explained to Geist that she “wasn't the only one who'd had this kind of experience.”
“It's so profound. And I know that scientists feel that it's a scientific thing that happens. And spiritualists believe that it's a spiritual thing. Personally, I'm with (Albert) Einstein, who believed that it's both,” she elaborated.
In a previous Variety in 2019, Stone said that her acting career took quite a hit as she took several years to recover from the medical emergency.
However, since then, she’s had time to process and has allowed herself to see the “silver lining.”
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"We're here to learn our lessons," she explained, adding, "I hope that I was humble and available to my lesson because I don't wanna do it again. And do I think that I got it right in the smacker, maybe because I didn't pay attention to some smaller lessons prior."
In the present-day, the “Ratched” star says she’s “grateful” for her family.
She notes a “house full of kids running and screaming and dogs” is something she’s always wanted in life.
“There's nothing more free than standing centered in yourself,” she added. “I tell my friends that my new mantra is, ‘It's never too late to become yourself.’”
In an excerpt from her memoir, released earlier this month, the actress opened up about her experience filming “Basic Instinct,” and how, when she saw the final product, she slapped her director.
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