Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Sharon: Flash was a shocker
Movie star Stone was hit by lightning while ironing
HOLLYWOOD star Sharon Stone has revealed she was struck by lightning as she tried to iron.
The Basic Instinct actress was sent flying through the air and was revived by a slap in the face from her mum. Sharon, 62, said she was filling the iron with water in the kitchen when a lightning bolt struck the family’s well and electricity surged into her body. She said: “I was hit by lightning. Wow – it’s really intense.
“I was at home, we had our own well. I was filling the iron with water and I had one hand on the [tap], and the well got hit by lightning and the lightning came up through the water. I got picked up and thrown across the kitchen and I hit the refrigerator.
“And I was like ‘Woah’ – and my mother was standing there and my mother just belted me across the face, and brought me to.
“I was in such an altered state. I don’t know how to describe it, so bright, like wow, and she threw me in the car and drove me to hospital.” Speaking to British actor Brett Goldstein, 40, on his Films To Be Buried With podcast, US star Sharon added the electrocardiogram (or ECG test) was “showing just such electricity in my body – it was so crazy”. She previously accused Hollywood of being “brutally unkind” in the way she was treated as she struggled to recover from a stroke in 2001. The mum-of-three, who shot to fame flashing the flesh in thriller Basic Instinct and earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Casino, added: “I don’t think anyone grasps how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover.
“It took me about seven years.”