“I’m quite certain who did it to me, but I’m quite certain I would’ve had a hard time in court a decade later,” Stone admitted.

Sharon Stone reveals violent physical attack that left internal organs ‘fractured and scarred’ 10 years later

"I'm quite certain who did it to me, but I'm quite certain I would've had a hard time in court a decade later," Stone admitted.

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- Sharon Stone has revealed a horrifying physical attack left her severely injured 10 years later.

- The actress said she's not "at liberty" to reveal who she thinks attacked her, though she said she's "quite certain" who did.

- "I did not want that to be my legacy," she said of not taking the incident to court.

Oscar-nominated actress Sharon Stone has opened up about a horrifying physical attack that she said left her internal organs "fractured and scarred" 10 years after the alleged incident occurred.

The 68-year-old *Basic Instinct* icon and recent *Euphoria* season 3 star revealed details of the alleged attack for the first time on a recent episode of David Begnaud's *The Person Who Believed in Me* podcast (below), during which she recounted the incident.

"I don't know how much I can tell about this. I was hit from behind," Stone said on the episode. "I didn't really know until 10 years later what had happened to me, because I woke up. I was unconscious on the floor. The two couches were sideways, the coffee table was all over the place, it was sort of upside-down, everything that had been on the coffee table was all over the floor, and I didn't know how I got there."

Stone said that she sought treatment for neck and shoulder issues a decade later, and, at a clinic in Marina Del Rey, Calif., she was given propofol while the medical team did X-rays on her upper body.

"The doctor came in and he was like, 'We're not going to be able to do this surgery,'" remembered Stone. "He was like, 'Your thoracic ribcage is all fractured and scarred back together. It's clear that you were attacked, and that what happened to you was a felony and we have to report it to the police and to everyone.'"

Stone said that the doctor urged her to report it as well, because "there's a protocol" to follow, and that she had a panic attack in the hospital after the doctor finished speaking.

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"He got on his knees, and I think he thought I thought he was threatening. He was like, 'I'm small,' and he got down on his knees [and said] 'No one will hurt you,'" Stone recalled. "Because I was on propofol, they were able to take me back through the incident and help me understand what had happened to me."

When pressed on who attacked her, Stone replied, "I'm not going to say publicly, but I am going to say that we did report and we did do everything," and added that she "had the opportunity to press charges. Because it had been a decade and because I'm a public figure, I decided not to."

She maintained that she's "quite certain who did it" to her, but added that she "would've had a hard time in court a decade later" attempting to litigate the incident.

"I'm quite sure that I had enough circumstantial evidence to make sort of a case, but I did not want that to be my legacy," Stone admitted. When Begnaud asked Stone if the incident was "domestic violence," she replied, "I'm not at liberty to say."

Sharon Stone in 2024.

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Stone said in the episode that she was married at the time of the incident and that her husband was involved in other medical treatment at the time. Though she didn't name him outright in this portion of the podcast, she noted that her spouse at the time was a powerful figure in journalism. Stone was married to investigative reporter Phil Bronstein from 1998 to 2004.****** has reached out to Stone for comment. EW has additionally attempted to contact Bronstein for comment.

Stone also opened up on the podcast about her decision to have a mastectomy amid her diagnosis with a massive tumor.

"One of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast," Stone said on the show. "And the doctor had come out to my house and said, 'Look, we think you should have a bilateral mastectomy. This is really bad. And we usually, when they're all the way up into here, we know before we go in that they're cancer.'"

Sharon Stone at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

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Stone said that, in her estimation, "that was the end of the marriage." "That was it. He was done with me then. It was over," she added.

The *Casino* actress maintained that "it was just over in the room. You could just tell. It was over. It was just over. He thought I was ridiculous. He thought it was foolish. He thought I was making too many decisions myself."

Watch Stone discuss her health and marriage in the podcast episode above.

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