STONE-COLD HEARTBREAK!
Dirt-poor Sharon turned movie queen but big brother hit bottom as junkie
SEX siren Sharon Stone rocketed from a “cataclysmic” dirt-poor hillbilly childhood to screen stardom while her big brother Michael plunged into a nightmare world of drugs and addiction.
Sharon, 64, and her 71-yearold brother have dished their darkest secrets on four hours of film that they plan to turn into a documentary.
They reveal their poor Pennsylvania parents, Dot and Joe, raised them with brothers Patrick, now 55, and Kelly, 50, with strict rules and severe punishments.
They wore hand-me-down clothes as their parents struggled to put food on the table.
“I wanted anything, I had to buy it myself with money I earned,” Michael recalls. “Sharon was the same. Sharon flipped burgers at McDonald’s. We built fences, mowed lawns and shoveled snow, anything to earn a dime.”
Teenage Sharon’s beauty won her Homecoming Queen, Tulip Festival Queen and Miss Crawford County titles leading to a Ford Agency modeling contract at 19.
At 21, she landed a bit part in Woody Allen’s 1980 flick Stardust Memories and at 33, she rocketed to stardom in 1992’s Basic Instinct as murderous man-eater Catherine Tramell.
Meanwhile, Michael joined the Navy at 18, where he began smoking marijuana and was discharged at 22 after a 1973 finger injury.
He started dealing weed and was soon raking in $60,000 a month. By 1981, he was pushing cocaine for violent Colombian gangsters and a freebasing junkie.
That year, he was busted by the feds. He cleaned up his act during a two-year stint in New York’s rough Attica prison and today lives in Montana, working construction and writing poetry.
Sharon recalls his druggie days when he was “suicidal and overdosed. I literally put you on my back and dragged you back and forth across my little shaky apartment, all night long, several different times until you came to.
“I kept you from dying.”