Written in Stone: More wacky revelations
She had a surprise breast enlargement
According to Stone’s new book, she had reconstructive surgery to remove breast tumors that were “gigantic, bigger than my breast alone.” While she was out of it on anesthesia, she claims the doctor improvised the reconstruction. He “thought that I would look better with bigger ‘better’ boobs.” She recalled being told, “They go better with your hip size.” And she added, “He had changed my body without my knowledge or consent.”
Komodo dragons plague Stone
Three years ago, Stone tweeted a video that showed a 10-footlong Komodo dragon strolling up her street in Beverly Hills. “So dangerous!” she wrote. It was not her first experience with the giant lizard. Stone saw one attack her then-husband Phil Bronstein, and nearly eat his foot at the Los Angeles Zoo. During the more recent encounter, she was driving down the street with her kids when they wanted a better look at the dragon. As she recently told the New Yorker, “I was, like, ‘What the f--k? Kids roll up the windows!’ And they’re, like, ‘No, we’re rolling down the windows, we’re looking.’ ” Apparently, it was a neighbor’s pet and had somehow gotten loose.
Stone is on team Woody
Stone has acknowledged that HBO’s four-part docuseries, “Allen v. Farrow,” which is centered on allegations that Woody Allen sexually abused his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, could be completely accurate. But she did not see that predatory side of the director while working with him on films such as “Stardust Memories.” Nevertheless, during the making of that movie, as a 20-year-old, she writes about being directed to kiss the window of a train. Her initial smooch was not good enough and Allen told her, “I want you to kiss the window like you are really kissing me.” As Stone puts it in her book, “Well, I really laid one on that window.”
She’s been struck by lightning
As a teenager, Stone was ironing her Bob’s Big Boy uniform in the kitchen of her family’s Meadville, Pa., home. As explained in her memoir, “I had one hand on the spigot and the other holding the iron, filling it with the water that came straight from our well when lightning hit the well. It threw me across the kitchen and into the fridge. My mother screamed and slapped me across the face.” Stone had passed out and her mother “restarted my heart.”
Stone is “almost agoraphobic”
She told the New Yorker that, in terms of astrology, “she is born in the week of the loner on the day of the loner, so I’m very introverted.” She also acknowledged that there are more tangible reasons for her borderline agoraphobia. “I had the kind of fame where people chase you down the street, and stores have to lock the doors and hide you. People get on top of your car until the car actually caves in . . . SWAT teams are called. So that will introvert a gal.”
Bumble gave her the bum’s rush
Stone got booted from Bumble. The online dating site slapped the ban on her because users reported the movie star as a fake. Soon after, Stone took to social media and asked, “Is being me exclusionary? Don’t shut me out of the hive.” Bumble let her back in. Stone told the Times of London that she found online dating to be a “cool learning experience during COVID, where you really know you can’t get together.” She remains up for grabs, but she said, “I don’t know if I’m a person who’s going to get to have a relationship in my life.”
She’s still pals with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Stone says she put on nearly 20 pounds getting into fighting shape for her scenes with Schwarzenegger — “beating the s--t out of Arnold, in space” — in 1990’s “Total Recall” (below). The pair have stayed friends — and Stone, a Democrat, says she even voted for the “lunkhead” action star, who went on to become the Republican governor of California. “He taught me so much, about how to do my job, better than I thought I could, and how to do publicity: ‘Answer the question they should have asked,’ ” she writes in her memoir. “Brilliant, I have to say, unless it’s . . . none of anyone’s business. Then I ask a question about them. He taught me that, too.”