We are back at the Sunset Tower Hotel on a glorious, sunny, yet very cool and crisp day in Los Angeles. We're about to have lunch with one of the most beautiful people in Hollywood. And I don't just mean physically, because she's gorgeous, but also inside. Sharon Stone, Oscar nominated actress, a Golden Globe winner, the star of Casino, basic instinct. It's super fun, it's super show. We actually eat, so I hope you're hungry. I am good. I'm so happy to see you. Thank you me too. But what I love about Sharon, what inspires me about Sharon, it's her commitment to our community, my community, the LGBTQ plus community. She has been an advocate for raising awareness with HIV AIDS. She has been the face and the fundraiser for am FAR, the American Federation for AIDS Research is a big deal, and she's stood in the fourth of making sure women and men get paid the same. She's just a rock star and we're doing We're doing fries, nice and crispy, leaning in. You're leaning in, So pull up and relax and grab your rose and get ready. Because she also is super cool and a fun, outspoken person. High Sharon Stone, you were here on table for two and we're having lunch together. This is a dream and have lunch with you anytime, would you? Yes? Yes, I think we should just talk. N Why are we not? This is like the thing with La, like we should just have lunches and chill out. Yes, you are so much to me, And I'm gonna tell you a little story. So the first time I saw you, you don't know, but it was nineteen ninety two. It was brunch my fame. Who's on Third? Remember Who's on Third? That restaurant? Joanne? Yep, Yeah, And you were sitting there with a bunch of guys and I remember looking at you and being like, she's so beautiful, she's amazing, and what you did. So I'd like to sort of begin our conversation today because this is all about just a connection. And what I believe is the beauty of a meal is the romance of the meal. You know, I was young. People forget that. They forget that, they forget that. It's like people don't ask each other for dates anymore, and they want to text and hook up. Yeah, it's like they don't romance. They don't seduce. They don't. It's not interesting. Frankly, it isn't. It's everything we had growing up. Yeah, it was so. It was titillating. It was like you didn't know there was poetry. It was poetry, right, A beautiful word to you. Yes, I mean at that time you were hitting, you were becoming, which we'll talk about who ran off with my name and identity, But what you were also doing, which led to was you are a truth teller. I am so. I am not out here looking to get people, as I'm a very big Sheryl Lead Ralph fan. Like I've known Cheryl Sheryl. I've known Chryl since we were kids in waiting rooms trying out for the same jobs in Manhattan. And she's the most warm, loving, generous kind. You know. The first time I met her, she had a bag of liquorice wheels and I was sitting next to her right sharing her liquorice wheels. And let's order some lunch. You have to eat, you boy, you have a face to paint. To look at that face and stuff. No, you have no face to paint. Um, bam, bam, you know anything. This is lunch, babe. Well, I'm going to have the Tower Burger because it's so anza. Yeah, And do you have any gluten free thing you can stick it on like a breath, let us wrap. I'll do the gluten free bread toasted, well toasted. I like the burgger medium. I like those onions you saute them, right, I like that? And do you want cheddar or cheese greer we're doing We're doing fries nice and nice and crispy. Leaning in, you're leaning in and you know I do my my classic, my chop salad with chicken. Yeah, I'm digging it, Okay. I like I'll have sparkling sparkling water and maybe I'll have an iced coffee. You're going on right now? Say again, just just I'll have milk on the sign. I know, I am. I've had two already. Like I'm like Jack Jo, I'm sitting here with so well. I was really leaning into your sort of amazing commitment to am far into raising the awareness, to the amount of money and to your commitment to HIV AIDS and what you've done as a human. It's breast cancer home listeners like always, I mean, it was that always a part of it was a part of my upbringing. Right, Yeah, it was a big part of my upbringing. You know, it's not like I came from wealth, Nope, but I in my universe, we weren't poor. It's hard to explain that when you'd say, like my dad made fourteen grand a year, but we weren't poor. So I grew up in a very small rural community where, like, you know, we were like ninety people my school. Right, kids drove their tractors to school in the morning after they finished their farm tours. Right. So we had two acres, which is two two and a half acres, which is a big parcel of land when it has next to it a ravine with its own stream, where we would walk down the edge of the ravine and you know, get the ice in the winter and put it in a bucket and have fun making ice cream in the basement with that with the crank thing. And my dad built a treehouse on the side of the ravine with a back door that had a rope with knots and we could jump out and swing across the ravine. And he put bunk beds in the treehouse. And you know, when lightning stuck struck that tree, he brought it down with a pulley and made it into a playhouse. From my sister and Marianne, you know what I mean, very idyllic kind of childhood. But we had neighbors, you know, and neighbored by neighbors, I mean like a mile away who had eight kids and were much poorer than we were. So we provided their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and it was like a secret like that, we drove with the lights out in the car and put it on their doorstep and put their presence and that kind of stuff, and it was really great. And when my parents went to somebody's house for dinner, they left early, and of course my mother per usual, had a wet wash cloth up in a plastic bag in her bag, and they would stop in a field and my dad would walk out into the field with a big newspapers and he would cut a gigantic bundle of wild flowers and bundle them with binders twine and put them in the back of the car, and then my mom would wash his hands into with the washcloth in her thing and they would wrap it with you know. That's what they would take for dinner, was this gigantic bundle of wild flowers. That was a romance of My parents were wildly in love with each other's beautiful I mean, they fell in love. She got pregnant at sixteen, he was seventeen. They both had no parents. You know, my dad came from an extremely wealthy oil family, and the oil well blew when he was little, when he was four and killed everybody. And then they were suddenly went from great wealth to destitution, right you said, or his nephew or somebody took over the business. And his nephew, who was eighteen, Yeah, because women, even though my grandmother's money was in this, women didn't get the money. And this is why my dad became such a diehard feminist, because the eighteen year old nephew got all the money, and of course blew it at the track sous so a couple of years and everybody was completely broke. And you know, my dad just could not fathom that his mother, who was my Grandmaalela, who was tough as nails. I mean, this is a woman who walked her property in a Chapparelli suit with her German shepherd Rex in his studded collar, in her black jack and her other hand. You know, but she wasn't getting her due because she was certainly capable and tough enough to handle it. Yeah, reading about your childhood was absolutely amazing because I to lose everything, right, Yeah, you know, you'll lose everything, and you what you have to constantly remember is you don't lose everything, right. You'll lose stuff, right, stuff, Yeah, yeah, and the crocodiles will give it to you, and the crocodiles will take it away. And the great thing is, as long as the crocodiles don't get you, you're You're a guy. So now you're like this movie star. And now you're also because it's in your DNA, you're leaning in, you're giving back, You're you're separating, You're not so because at that time, Oh, that's the point of fame, I think, yeah, right, is it's you've got this big purple dinosaur hanging onto you everywhere you go. If that dinosaur isn't working for you and for the people, yeah, it's gonna eat you. What was you're leaning into? Hiv aids? Well, I was in can and I got asked to fill in for a night for Elizabeth Taylor, and it was an incredibly moving experience. I mean, mind blowing because while I had been in the modeling industry, which has been very good to me, very good to me when I was nineteen in New York, and which I can say is the business where I have really learned the most. I have learned more about myself and others in that business than anywhere in the world. It's taken me around the world, It's introduced me to more people, and there's more loyalty and family and we have to get down to work in that business than in any other business I've ever worked in. But not all of these businesses are kind back. But in my business when the modeling business, we look out for each other and we don't want the business to just go by the wayside, and we want to look out for each other. At least I do, and I can say I have tremendous respect for people like Anna Wintour and these photographers that have carried endless pounds of cameras on their backs for their whole lives. And like I do in the movie business, when I see people dragging cable and the rain is coming down and then I'm not on set, I would be inclined to drag some cable. Anna sat with me at lunch. And she's an incredible woman. She has your passion and your romance for her work, and so generous, yeah, and so elegant. And believe me, I didn't understand her when I was a young person. She's a very shy, ye shy woman. Yes, okay, So you're the modeling and leaning into the HIV aids. Well, when they asked me to come back, they after I did the first one, and they said would I do three more years? And because I recognized that Elizabeth was winding down and her ability to continue to do it, and so I said sure, I would do three more years. And I said, um, gorgeous, thank you. That's the way that you enjoy Thank you so much. Well, of course I said sure, most for ours, right Okay, So I said sure I would do three more years. And you know, I'm a problem solver. You are you are a problem I'm a person that gets that stuff off my desk. I'm a person and that you know, if something needs to get done, I do it today. I'm a person that, like, if there's an issue, I'm not the person that like likes to talk around it. If someone's doing something that's just bullshit. I'm like the person that calls bullshit. I'm you are a truth teller. I really am. And I know it concerns people. Yeah, of course it really concerned that. No, they don't. And frankly, I don't always like it. I don't like that I'm not, you know more suave people are lauded for diplomacy, but I think there's a lot of time wasted with people not talking about what's really actually going on. You know. My dad always used to say, you know, I like give it to me with the bark on right, and people think that it's cruel a lot when you just say it the way that it is. I I feel like, if I really respect you, I'm gonna tell it like it is. Yeah, And if I don't respect you, I don't really care what you think or what you if you want to know or anything, because it's not worth my time to get into it with you because you're not going to get it. And why bother. I mean, it's digging because we're gonna and that's not it, you know. And I think that one of the things that's consistent with what you can see with your life and your career is your ability to tell the truth and say this is no, no, no no, this is not the way this is going to go down. Like right, I see it as it is, and I think that that is so refreshing you like that. I mean, come, um, which I love I love about I really admire that, Sharon, about you. And I've seen it from the distance that you know, I find it so interesting how like it. I see that it's gotten you in trouble like of course, because people don't want because they want people to fit in their their zones, you know, like their their buckets. And then all of a sudden you have you. But have you come with all the smarts, his brain, his body, this beauty that's threatening? I think, well truth right, no, right, Welcome back to my lunch with Sharon Stone on table for two with burger in hand and some crispy fries. Sharon told me about a wardrobe emergency that took place right before a pretty major award show. I mean, you tell a story which I thought was interesting. You get to can your bag is lost. No one, all these actresses are around with, you know, clothes on racks, and no one wants to give you shit because you're a threat. You know what I mean, like, can you tell me about that. I'm so interesting because I think that's that's a thing that you've been able to sort of beautifully navigate in your life. When I went to can the first time and yeah, bags didn't come. Yeah, but you also know, navigating people who want to push backron you and I didn't. And I didn't have any money, and I couldn't buy new clothes, so I had to keep figuring out how to make what I had on in just sixteen different outfits. You. But it's like when I first got invited to the Oscars, right before Basic Instinct had come out. Movie hadn't come out, so no one would lend me a dress. And then it came out like a few days right before the Oscars or something, and I was going to present, but no one would give me a dress. It was unbelievable because I didn't have any money to buy anything. And I was like, oh my god, all these people in their forty thousand and fifty thousand dollars dresses. And I went and bought it Betsy Johnson jumpsuit because that was it, a polyester jumpsuit. That was the best I could do. And I'm doing my own hair and makeup right, And I was just like wow, like this is awful, Like how am I going to do this? Right? But then I got there and I was like in the fourth or fifth row back, which was really good. Yeah, And I was on the aisle and I was seated right behind Anthony Hopkin, and when I walked by, he put his hands together and put them over his head like champion and held them up to me when I passed him, and I was like, oh my god, right, he saw my movie, right, and he's giving me that right thing, the champion, Like yes, right. And I told my dad and my dad was like, kid, you could look good in the burlaps, that's right at the end of the day. And I was like, oh right. And so after that, I thought, you know, it doesn't matter. I could wear a T shirt to the Oscars and so I did. Right. Well, I mean two things. One is yeah, that's you know, your strength, your power of mind and beauty and you and you so you're like, okay, you did not go, you went. You threw it on. Hopkins is saying, yes, the world's about to see you in a major way. What did it feel like and how did that journey, the lack of effing generosity of people when you're sitting in a room you got, you got yourself in that room, and now you have the lack of generosity, Like, but you didn't use Joe's not to leave the room. You're like, I'm here, and that's what to me is Well, it was hard because when I got I got nominated for a Golden Globe for that part. And when I went to the Golden Globes and they called my name, a bunch of people in the room laughed. It was horrible. It was horrible. It was horrible. Oh my god, it was horrible. I was so humiliated. I was so humiliated. And I was like, does anybody have any idea how hard it was to play that part? How gut wrenching and it's frightening, and how much work it was to play this part and kind of try to carry this complaint ex movie that was really breaking all boundaries and everybody was protesting against and the pressure and I auditioned for it for nine months, which I can't go over. They offered it to thirteen other people and now you're laughing at me. I was just like, oh my god, I just wanted to crawl into a hole, you know, yeah, no, of course you did. And then you know, I lost custody of my child when the judge asked my child, my tiny, little tiny boy, do you know your mother makes sex movies? Like this kind of abuse by this system, this kind of abuse that I was considered what kind of parent I was? Because I made that movie. People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like maybe like sixteenth of a second of possible nudity of me right right, right and now. And I was custody. I was custody of my child. How did you survive that? Are you kidding? I ended up in the Mayo clinic with extra heartbeats in my upper and lower chamber of my heart. I did not know that when you say break your heart, yea, it broke my heart. It broke your heart. Literally, that broke right the whole thing. Yes, upper and lower chambers, it broke my heart. I went in to get a mammogram and they're like, something's wrong. We need you to do a treadmill test. And I'm like what. All the doctors came running in, They're like, whoa that's crazy, Sharon. And if you look, if you look at that moment, would that happened today? We have a whole different right now we're put through the Ringer'd be illegal. You were playing a part like what you said was when an audience comes to see a movie versus like one critic comments to see a movie like you know, we come. I mean, you know the guy that played Jeffrey Dalmer. No one thinks that he's a people who eats people? Right? Do you know what I mean? As he said, you know, this is a very hard part to play. It was very hard to watch. I hope we got something from it, right, Its eaters exactly. It doesn't turn him into a serial killer who eats people or make him an antisocial person. It makes a very complex person who took an incredibly difficult part which probably made him ill to play. Sure, it is brutal to play these characters. Oh yeah, And this is why I don't play them anymore. I don't want to. And it's one thing for the audience not to understand that piece. If you're an actor, what you have to go through. But it's a whole another story when you're your peers and you're the people in the business are not understanding that, and like you're losing custody and you have the legal system. I mean you're like, wait a minute, I mean you know this is my job, Like this is oh I hate to do and none of you know. The fact that you went through it is absolutely and literally it sort of ended my dating world because men were afraid of you. And I also think that men didn't want to data woman that other men thought of like that right, and that's also a failure of the male. Yeah reality, sure, that's your own shit. Yeah really, yeah, I can't wade through that situation. Then you go on and you go on to what is like one of the most amazing performances I've ever seen, which is of course in Casino, and here you are. Now I was so blessed. Come on, you're working like you're working with de Niro, You're working with Frans actorking with Peshi in the business, the greatest director of all times. Yes, and there you are, that beautiful face, that incredible performance, that whole thing, that whole transformation from like when you exerts the drugs and it goes dark and everything. First of all, I love that movie. I love that movie. I mean, and I love those guys. I love that Nick Poleggi script. Yeah, Nick Poggi, he's amazing. So tell me about that tray. So you go from ninety two to ninety five and then you end up back in the room where they laughed at you. You win a glow, You're nominated for an Oscar. How does that feel? It was super surprised. I mean, they told me we can run you for supporting actress, you'll win the Oscar. You can't win for a leading lady. That they're never gonna let you get a leading lady Oscar. They're never gonna let you get because of the size of the part, because it was you, because it was me and I. But I am the leading lady in the film, right, So I want to run for leading Lady. And they said, but you won't win, and I said, I don't care. I'm not in it to win it. That's not the point here. The point is the actual work that I did right. And I did the work. You did the leading lady work for five months with Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci and James Woods. Right, I did the work right. So I'm going to be in the category for the work that I did, right, I'm not in it so that you'll say, oh, okay, right, okay, Sar, if you could have it, you can have the statue. Right now, I'm in the lane that I drove in perfectly and thanks. So I didn't expect to get the oscar because people don't think of me as an actress, you know. They don't think of me as a person who loves her craft, you know what I mean. Because I don't walk around saying that. I don't walk around saying like I'm a dramatic actress. I don't walk around having discussions on TV about my dramatic acting. Right. I don't talk about my art for right, because I don't think of it like that at all. To me. I know, Greta, Greta Garbo is looking at me like a literally, which is more. I used to have dinner with her and not with her. This is so wonderful. She lived like three blocks from me in New York when I was a young girl. She used to walk around New York her big hat and her big coat and her goloshes and me too, and we would go to this restaurant that was between our houses and sit alone at tables, facing each other, really, and we had dinner in this same restaurant, facing each other dozens of times. You're blowing me away. And I never spoke to her, and she never spoke to me. But alone in this restaurant, I sat with Greta Garbo. Wow, and that's the universe again, right, And she's looking at me like you're trying to explain this. I know, Greta Garbo. I feel like Grega Garbo right now. It's like trying to explain how the wind meets the trees. You're like, what I do. And this is why I love playing people that already lived, because I feel like I opened my soul and let them talk through me. And so I'm not a dramatic actress. I am a spiritual conduit. And when I have the extraordinary pleasure and honor of receiving a script that is actually intended for me, I know it when I get it, and I feel like I knew it when I got the Casino script. They didn't know it when I got the Casino script, and they were seeing so many other people really, and I was just like, I'm going to wait till they're done with that. Yeah, I love that. I love your ability to take a step back because I also feel like one of the big things in life is timing when you were seeing and to say, like, I'm supposed to play Phillis Stiller, and I know that, like I'm sitting here with you, right, I just know it. That's fantastic. Like there are people I'm supposed to play. It's going to happen or they're going to miss it. Right. I was great friends with Phillis. I went to her house, I had dinner with her multitudes of time. She taught me her laugh. You know, I know I was supposed to play her. She didn't even get famous at all until she was in her forties. I'm supposed to play Phyllis. I love, Like, like literature, I'm going to take a picture of it, like so I could post it and show people like you're trying to explain, yes, she really is, and that you have all those moments. It was just so wonderful. I would sit in this table that was to the like the left front, and she would sit on the back right looking forward, and I would sit in the left front looking back, and I used to just think This is so great My Dinners with Garbo. Welcome back to Table for two. As I mentioned at the beginning of the show, one of the amazing and endearing things about Sharon Stone is that she is so outspoken. Sharon talks very candidly about the harring events at the heart of her book, The Beauty of Living Twice. So in your memoir, you know, you're very honest about when you were in your early forties and you had the brain emerge and like that whole experience. It's so rivening. I'm telling you read this book and one of The Beauty of Living Twice available on amazone in any Star exactly good fun. The fact that you share that you crossed over and you saw people you love made me feel so at peace. Oh you should feel at peace and even though you got the kick in the chest to come back. Yeah, so I'd like to know about that and your grandmother coming saying don't move your yeah, this is These are like things because you and then your strength to say what are you doing here as you're being wheeled in, don't do that? This is I need to know more about this operation before you do it, Like, tell me about those things. That. So, first of all, when this happened to me, I felt very disenfranchised. I was not getting the help that I needed. So I didn't get to the hospital for three days of this brain blead home. I was home, Yeah, and I was calling and trying and asking and begging and bleeding and wanting to get to the hospital, but couldn't get there. Eventually, when I got to the hospital and I had the first MRI and they discovered the brain blead and they realized how long it had been going on, I was in really bad shape. Yeah, that's where I had the initial what I call like the white out, you know, where I was dying and coming back. They then immediately transferred me to a hospital that had a neurological I see you, and a neurological I see you is just a wheel, a circle around a nurse's station. It's not they're not rooms, and there's just ae drape separating each person. And it's an incredibly traumatic environment for many reasons, one of which is the neurological pain is unbelievably painful. First of all, you don't even know where it is because it's all over the place, and it's inside and outside of your body. So when it was happening, I was actually holding outside my head. I was holding above my head like I was holding yes in the crown chakra above my head. I was holding this space outside my head and holding onto it like it was sitting on top of my head screaming. I think I was holding my beingness, which was literally outside my body. And so after a few days of this screaming because they had missed it when they went in, well, they went in it through my phemeral artery and scanned and missed my why this was happening to me. So I'd been laying on one side, which was less painful, so the blood had pulled on the opposite side of my head, so they didn't know what was going on. And that's really heavy when everybody screaming and you're all fighting for your life or all of our beds are on scales and it's your body mass that they're measuring, right, So I lost eighteen percent of my body mass in the nine days I was in there. And you can only have like a guest at a time, and so my friends, my family are there. I had like my really my ride or die, best friend Donna Shavo. She slept in an alcove of a window in the hospital the entire week. You know, my mother sat outside the room. It was unreal, and I didn't meet and I didn't know what to do, and for some reason, they weren't putting me on nutrition. Yeah. I'm like about to ask you you're not you don't have an IVY with I'm satly yeah right, but like, I don't know what's going on. And my dad became so desperate and so he really, my dad, God rest, it is amazing. So he said, would you have a milkshake, honey? And I'm like, okay, Dad. He went to the store, he bought the milkshake, the ice cream, he bought ice, he bought milk. He went home, he made me a milkshake. He put it in a mason jar, packed it in ice, brought it to the hospital and fed it to me. Wow, okay, yeah, says everything right, Yeah right, I think because you know, my dad got a stop at Joe Cancer after that. Yeah. And I always said, you know that my dad, I know, said the prayer that I say for my children, which is give it to me. Yeah, give it to me. But any parent wants of course you say give it to me. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that my dad got sick because he said, give it to me, let her live, give it to me. Yeah. Wow. Sure. And I just think that that's what we do as barons. We say, give me the drama, give me what it is, let me garriott, let me help them, yeah, take me, take me. Yeah. But you were able to, I mean, between the stories of your mom and your dad and your dad doing that the strength the survivor, and you to be also to have the voice, because so many of us don't have the voice, the courage to say no, I don't want to do this. I don't understand this. This is power. You've been surrounded by so much power in your life. You emanate that so profoundly. I feel it's a hell of a survival story. It really it wasn't you know. It wasn't like a snappy comeback. No. You know. I had to learn to walk. Yeah, I had to learn to talk because I came out of it with a really bad stutter. I lost my depth perception right well, everything hearing blew out in my right ear. I mean I was walking on the tops of my feet when I left that husband. Yeah, it's amazing, you know, the narrative of your life that takes you from Pennsylvania and like you said, a poor but not a poor family because of everybody else, and then where you land because Middle America, my friend is poor. Yes, it's poor. Yeah, so's the painting that you're doing now? Is that an express? Like? How did that? Because you didn't go to university that you could have gone. I didn't go to university. Was university and I finished and got my bachelor's degree because I was out here and Hillary Clinton came to talk to a bunch of us and she was like, you know, you guys have so much power that you don't even realize. You can do anything you want to do. You're an artist, but you can go outside your art form. You can write a song, you can do this, you can do that. Because you have more power than you're using. You can do whatever you want. And I started. Really, I was sitting on the floor because so many of us came, there weren't places to sit. So I was sitting very near her, and I was thinking about what she was saying, and I thought, you know what, And so I wrote a song for Katrina and I wrote the title track song for Come Together Now to Come Together Now Katrina album. I wrote the lyrics WHOA, and I started getting people together. I'm like, we're going to write an album for katrain them, and everybody's like, you can't do that, and you can't get the artists and these artists are all under contract and blah blah blah, and you can't do it. And man, let me tell you the resistance I got. And I never really got the credit for writing the lyrics because you have to really give up everything in order to get anything done. But I didn't do it to get credit. I did it to get it done right right. And then Planet Hope, my sister Kelly and I's organization, we went down there and we got those soldiers who were holding all the supplies in the trucks because they took the trucks down there, but then they didn't give the stuff to the people. Okay, so the whole bullshit of we're taking all these trucks down here, yeah, they did, but they didn't open the trucks, so it was like getting them to open the trucks. We also planned to Hope went down there and we bought kegs of beer right for the soldiers because guess what, that's how you get the trucks open right, right. And then we bought things for people that like the little things, eye class prescriptions, how you get your diabetes, your insulin filled, how you get your dentures, all the things that like the little things that people couldn't get back right, And we did on the ground stuff. But you know, we had a lot of girls from New Orleans and Louisiana and we call them are steel Magnolias. Yeah, and those girls, those girls can get stuff done right. So we get stuff done on the ground. We worked with Burlington Coat Factory. We get coats for kids to go to school. We work with you people to donate their seconds so we can get shoes for these migrant workers kids. You got to get on the ground and get in there. So that's when I started being a lyricist because I was like, oh wait a second, I can write songs about things that matter, you know, like this Nobel Peace Prize winner was machine gun to death in his car going to the airport in South America because he was in a car convoy and it was supposed to be like a cartel guy that was was going to be hit and they hit the wrong person. So I wrote a song about that guy. What's it like to know that as these killers are coming towards your car that that's it. It's the end of your life. And you spent your life about peace. You're such an artist, right, I mean, you're such a prolific artist to owe you to thank you, to express yourself. And so I thought, you know what, I can do these things. So I went back to college and got mine my bachelor's degree exactly because it's like, yes, I can do this. I can do this, and I'm going to go get my bachelor's degree. And when it came in the mail, I was so proud, Sharon, as we said of wrap a lunch because I can literally sit with you. We're going to have many lunches together our home and not always I obtes I have questions for you. You do yes? Oh my god, I want to say, who interviews you? I'm gonna come and interview you for your interviews? Would you do that? Yes? Yes, Bruce Bozzy Sharon Stone, Yeah, okay, you heard that. We're gonna do that. Be an honor. Um. I've described you as a champion, as a survivor, as a truth teller, as easy on the eyes. But I'm also going to say you're pretty chick and you have to read the beauty to understand what that means. So pick that out. I am and you you are very absolutely Adore you, Sharon, Thank you for Thank You. Table foot You with Bruce Bozzi is produced by iHeart Radio seven three seven Park and Airmail. Our executive producers are Bruce Bozzi, Jonathan Hoss Dresser and Nathan King. Table for two is edited and written by Tina Mullen and researched and written by Bridget arsenalt Our sound engineers are Emil B. Klein, Paul Bowman and Alyssa Midcaff. Table for two's la production team is Danielle Romo and Lorraine Viz. Our music supervisor is Randall Poster. Our talent booking is by Jane Sarkin. Special thanks to Amy Sugarman, Uni Cher, Kevin Yuvane, Bobby Bauer, Alison Kantor Graber and Barbourne, Jen and Jeff Klein, and the staff at the Tower Bar in the world famous Sunset Tower Hotel. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

We are back at the Sunset Tower Hotel on a glorious, sunny, yet very cool and crisp day in Los Angeles. We're about to have lunch with one of the most beautiful people in Hollywood. And I don't just mean physically, because she's gorgeous, but also inside. Sharon Stone, Oscar nominated actress, a Golden Globe winner, the star of Casino, basic instinct. It's super fun, it's super show. We actually eat, so I hope you're hungry. I am good. I'm so happy to see you. Thank you me too. But what I love about Sharon, what inspires me about Sharon, it's her commitment to our community, my community, the LGBTQ plus community. She has been an advocate for raising awareness with HIV AIDS. She has been the face and the fundraiser for am FAR, the American Federation for AIDS Research is a big deal, and she's stood in the fourth of making sure women and men get paid the same. She's just a rock star and we're doing We're doing fries, nice and crispy, leaning in. You're leaning in, So pull up and relax and grab your rose and get ready. Because she also is super cool and a fun, outspoken person. High Sharon Stone, you were here on table for two and we're having lunch together. This is a dream and have lunch with you anytime, would you? Yes? Yes, I think we should just talk. N Why are we not? This is like the thing with La, like we should just have lunches and chill out. Yes, you are so much to me, And I'm gonna tell you a little story. So the first time I saw you, you don't know, but it was nineteen ninety two. It was brunch my fame. Who's on Third? Remember Who's on Third? That restaurant? Joanne? Yep, Yeah, And you were sitting there with a bunch of guys and I remember looking at you and being like, she's so beautiful, she's amazing, and what you did. So I'd like to sort of begin our conversation today because this is all about just a connection. And what I believe is the beauty of a meal is the romance of the meal. You know, I was young. People forget that. They forget that, they forget that. It's like people don't ask each other for dates anymore, and they want to text and hook up. Yeah, it's like they don't romance. They don't seduce. They don't. It's not interesting. Frankly, it isn't. It's everything we had growing up. Yeah, it was so. It was titillating. It was like you didn't know there was poetry. It was poetry, right, A beautiful word to you. Yes, I mean at that time you were hitting, you were becoming, which we'll talk about who ran off with my name and identity, But what you were also doing, which led to was you are a truth teller. I am so. I am not out here looking to get people, as I'm a very big Sheryl Lead Ralph fan. Like I've known Cheryl Sheryl. I've known Chryl since we were kids in waiting rooms trying out for the same jobs in Manhattan. And she's the most warm, loving, generous kind. You know. The first time I met her, she had a bag of liquorice wheels and I was sitting next to her right sharing her liquorice wheels. And let's order some lunch. You have to eat, you boy, you have a face to paint. To look at that face and stuff. No, you have no face to paint. Um, bam, bam, you know anything. This is lunch, babe. Well, I'm going to have the Tower Burger because it's so anza. Yeah, And do you have any gluten free thing you can stick it on like a breath, let us wrap. I'll do the gluten free bread toasted, well toasted. I like the burgger medium. I like those onions you saute them, right, I like that? And do you want cheddar or cheese greer we're doing We're doing fries nice and nice and crispy. Leaning in, you're leaning in and you know I do my my classic, my chop salad with chicken. Yeah, I'm digging it, Okay. I like I'll have sparkling sparkling water and maybe I'll have an iced coffee. You're going on right now? Say again, just just I'll have milk on the sign. I know, I am. I've had two already. Like I'm like Jack Jo, I'm sitting here with so well. I was really leaning into your sort of amazing commitment to am far into raising the awareness, to the amount of money and to your commitment to HIV AIDS and what you've done as a human. It's breast cancer home listeners like always, I mean, it was that always a part of it was a part of my upbringing. Right, Yeah, it was a big part of my upbringing. You know, it's not like I came from wealth, Nope, but I in my universe, we weren't poor. It's hard to explain that when you'd say, like my dad made fourteen grand a year, but we weren't poor. So I grew up in a very small rural community where, like, you know, we were like ninety people my school. Right, kids drove their tractors to school in the morning after they finished their farm tours. Right. So we had two acres, which is two two and a half acres, which is a big parcel of land when it has next to it a ravine with its own stream, where we would walk down the edge of the ravine and you know, get the ice in the winter and put it in a bucket and have fun making ice cream in the basement with that with the crank thing. And my dad built a treehouse on the side of the ravine with a back door that had a rope with knots and we could jump out and swing across the ravine. And he put bunk beds in the treehouse. And you know, when lightning stuck struck that tree, he brought it down with a pulley and made it into a playhouse. From my sister and Marianne, you know what I mean, very idyllic kind of childhood. But we had neighbors, you know, and neighbored by neighbors, I mean like a mile away who had eight kids and were much poorer than we were. So we provided their Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and it was like a secret like that, we drove with the lights out in the car and put it on their doorstep and put their presence and that kind of stuff, and it was really great. And when my parents went to somebody's house for dinner, they left early, and of course my mother per usual, had a wet wash cloth up in a plastic bag in her bag, and they would stop in a field and my dad would walk out into the field with a big newspapers and he would cut a gigantic bundle of wild flowers and bundle them with binders twine and put them in the back of the car, and then my mom would wash his hands into with the washcloth in her thing and they would wrap it with you know. That's what they would take for dinner, was this gigantic bundle of wild flowers. That was a romance of My parents were wildly in love with each other's beautiful I mean, they fell in love. She got pregnant at sixteen, he was seventeen. They both had no parents. You know, my dad came from an extremely wealthy oil family, and the oil well blew when he was little, when he was four and killed everybody. And then they were suddenly went from great wealth to destitution, right you said, or his nephew or somebody took over the business. And his nephew, who was eighteen, Yeah, because women, even though my grandmother's money was in this, women didn't get the money. And this is why my dad became such a diehard feminist, because the eighteen year old nephew got all the money, and of course blew it at the track sous so a couple of years and everybody was completely broke. And you know, my dad just could not fathom that his mother, who was my Grandmaalela, who was tough as nails. I mean, this is a woman who walked her property in a Chapparelli suit with her German shepherd Rex in his studded collar, in her black jack and her other hand. You know, but she wasn't getting her due because she was certainly capable and tough enough to handle it. Yeah, reading about your childhood was absolutely amazing because I to lose everything, right, Yeah, you know, you'll lose everything, and you what you have to constantly remember is you don't lose everything, right. You'll lose stuff, right, stuff, Yeah, yeah, and the crocodiles will give it to you, and the crocodiles will take it away. And the great thing is, as long as the crocodiles don't get you, you're You're a guy. So now you're like this movie star. And now you're also because it's in your DNA, you're leaning in, you're giving back, You're you're separating, You're not so because at that time, Oh, that's the point of fame, I think, yeah, right, is it's you've got this big purple dinosaur hanging onto you everywhere you go. If that dinosaur isn't working for you and for the people, yeah, it's gonna eat you. What was you're leaning into? Hiv aids? Well, I was in can and I got asked to fill in for a night for Elizabeth Taylor, and it was an incredibly moving experience. I mean, mind blowing because while I had been in the modeling industry, which has been very good to me, very good to me when I was nineteen in New York, and which I can say is the business where I have really learned the most. I have learned more about myself and others in that business than anywhere in the world. It's taken me around the world, It's introduced me to more people, and there's more loyalty and family and we have to get down to work in that business than in any other business I've ever worked in. But not all of these businesses are kind back. But in my business when the modeling business, we look out for each other and we don't want the business to just go by the wayside, and we want to look out for each other. At least I do, and I can say I have tremendous respect for people like Anna Wintour and these photographers that have carried endless pounds of cameras on their backs for their whole lives. And like I do in the movie business, when I see people dragging cable and the rain is coming down and then I'm not on set, I would be inclined to drag some cable. Anna sat with me at lunch. And she's an incredible woman. She has your passion and your romance for her work, and so generous, yeah, and so elegant. And believe me, I didn't understand her when I was a young person. She's a very shy, ye shy woman. Yes, okay, So you're the modeling and leaning into the HIV aids. Well, when they asked me to come back, they after I did the first one, and they said would I do three more years? And because I recognized that Elizabeth was winding down and her ability to continue to do it, and so I said sure, I would do three more years. And I said, um, gorgeous, thank you. That's the way that you enjoy Thank you so much. Well, of course I said sure, most for ours, right Okay, So I said sure I would do three more years. And you know, I'm a problem solver. You are you are a problem I'm a person that gets that stuff off my desk. I'm a person and that you know, if something needs to get done, I do it today. I'm a person that, like, if there's an issue, I'm not the person that like likes to talk around it. If someone's doing something that's just bullshit. I'm like the person that calls bullshit. I'm you are a truth teller. I really am. And I know it concerns people. Yeah, of course it really concerned that. No, they don't. And frankly, I don't always like it. I don't like that I'm not, you know more suave people are lauded for diplomacy, but I think there's a lot of time wasted with people not talking about what's really actually going on. You know. My dad always used to say, you know, I like give it to me with the bark on right, and people think that it's cruel a lot when you just say it the way that it is. I I feel like, if I really respect you, I'm gonna tell it like it is. Yeah, And if I don't respect you, I don't really care what you think or what you if you want to know or anything, because it's not worth my time to get into it with you because you're not going to get it. And why bother. I mean, it's digging because we're gonna and that's not it, you know. And I think that one of the things that's consistent with what you can see with your life and your career is your ability to tell the truth and say this is no, no, no no, this is not the way this is going to go down. Like right, I see it as it is, and I think that that is so refreshing you like that. I mean, come, um, which I love I love about I really admire that, Sharon, about you. And I've seen it from the distance that you know, I find it so interesting how like it. I see that it's gotten you in trouble like of course, because people don't want because they want people to fit in their their zones, you know, like their their buckets. And then all of a sudden you have you. But have you come with all the smarts, his brain, his body, this beauty that's threatening? I think, well truth right, no, right, Welcome back to my lunch with Sharon Stone on table for two with burger in hand and some crispy fries. Sharon told me about a wardrobe emergency that took place right before a pretty major award show. I mean, you tell a story which I thought was interesting. You get to can your bag is lost. No one, all these actresses are around with, you know, clothes on racks, and no one wants to give you shit because you're a threat. You know what I mean, like, can you tell me about that. I'm so interesting because I think that's that's a thing that you've been able to sort of beautifully navigate in your life. When I went to can the first time and yeah, bags didn't come. Yeah, but you also know, navigating people who want to push backron you and I didn't. And I didn't have any money, and I couldn't buy new clothes, so I had to keep figuring out how to make what I had on in just sixteen different outfits. You. But it's like when I first got invited to the Oscars, right before Basic Instinct had come out. Movie hadn't come out, so no one would lend me a dress. And then it came out like a few days right before the Oscars or something, and I was going to present, but no one would give me a dress. It was unbelievable because I didn't have any money to buy anything. And I was like, oh my god, all these people in their forty thousand and fifty thousand dollars dresses. And I went and bought it Betsy Johnson jumpsuit because that was it, a polyester jumpsuit. That was the best I could do. And I'm doing my own hair and makeup right, And I was just like wow, like this is awful, Like how am I going to do this? Right? But then I got there and I was like in the fourth or fifth row back, which was really good. Yeah, And I was on the aisle and I was seated right behind Anthony Hopkin, and when I walked by, he put his hands together and put them over his head like champion and held them up to me when I passed him, and I was like, oh my god, right, he saw my movie, right, and he's giving me that right thing, the champion, Like yes, right. And I told my dad and my dad was like, kid, you could look good in the burlaps, that's right at the end of the day. And I was like, oh right. And so after that, I thought, you know, it doesn't matter. I could wear a T shirt to the Oscars and so I did. Right. Well, I mean two things. One is yeah, that's you know, your strength, your power of mind and beauty and you and you so you're like, okay, you did not go, you went. You threw it on. Hopkins is saying, yes, the world's about to see you in a major way. What did it feel like and how did that journey, the lack of effing generosity of people when you're sitting in a room you got, you got yourself in that room, and now you have the lack of generosity, Like, but you didn't use Joe's not to leave the room. You're like, I'm here, and that's what to me is Well, it was hard because when I got I got nominated for a Golden Globe for that part. And when I went to the Golden Globes and they called my name, a bunch of people in the room laughed. It was horrible. It was horrible. It was horrible. Oh my god, it was horrible. I was so humiliated. I was so humiliated. And I was like, does anybody have any idea how hard it was to play that part? How gut wrenching and it's frightening, and how much work it was to play this part and kind of try to carry this complaint ex movie that was really breaking all boundaries and everybody was protesting against and the pressure and I auditioned for it for nine months, which I can't go over. They offered it to thirteen other people and now you're laughing at me. I was just like, oh my god, I just wanted to crawl into a hole, you know, yeah, no, of course you did. And then you know, I lost custody of my child when the judge asked my child, my tiny, little tiny boy, do you know your mother makes sex movies? Like this kind of abuse by this system, this kind of abuse that I was considered what kind of parent I was? Because I made that movie. People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like maybe like sixteenth of a second of possible nudity of me right right, right and now. And I was custody. I was custody of my child. How did you survive that? Are you kidding? I ended up in the Mayo clinic with extra heartbeats in my upper and lower chamber of my heart. I did not know that when you say break your heart, yea, it broke my heart. It broke your heart. Literally, that broke right the whole thing. Yes, upper and lower chambers, it broke my heart. I went in to get a mammogram and they're like, something's wrong. We need you to do a treadmill test. And I'm like what. All the doctors came running in, They're like, whoa that's crazy, Sharon. And if you look, if you look at that moment, would that happened today? We have a whole different right now we're put through the Ringer'd be illegal. You were playing a part like what you said was when an audience comes to see a movie versus like one critic comments to see a movie like you know, we come. I mean, you know the guy that played Jeffrey Dalmer. No one thinks that he's a people who eats people? Right? Do you know what I mean? As he said, you know, this is a very hard part to play. It was very hard to watch. I hope we got something from it, right, Its eaters exactly. It doesn't turn him into a serial killer who eats people or make him an antisocial person. It makes a very complex person who took an incredibly difficult part which probably made him ill to play. Sure, it is brutal to play these characters. Oh yeah, And this is why I don't play them anymore. I don't want to. And it's one thing for the audience not to understand that piece. If you're an actor, what you have to go through. But it's a whole another story when you're your peers and you're the people in the business are not understanding that, and like you're losing custody and you have the legal system. I mean you're like, wait a minute, I mean you know this is my job, Like this is oh I hate to do and none of you know. The fact that you went through it is absolutely and literally it sort of ended my dating world because men were afraid of you. And I also think that men didn't want to data woman that other men thought of like that right, and that's also a failure of the male. Yeah reality, sure, that's your own shit. Yeah really, yeah, I can't wade through that situation. Then you go on and you go on to what is like one of the most amazing performances I've ever seen, which is of course in Casino, and here you are. Now I was so blessed. Come on, you're working like you're working with de Niro, You're working with Frans actorking with Peshi in the business, the greatest director of all times. Yes, and there you are, that beautiful face, that incredible performance, that whole thing, that whole transformation from like when you exerts the drugs and it goes dark and everything. First of all, I love that movie. I love that movie. I mean, and I love those guys. I love that Nick Poleggi script. Yeah, Nick Poggi, he's amazing. So tell me about that tray. So you go from ninety two to ninety five and then you end up back in the room where they laughed at you. You win a glow, You're nominated for an Oscar. How does that feel? It was super surprised. I mean, they told me we can run you for supporting actress, you'll win the Oscar. You can't win for a leading lady. That they're never gonna let you get a leading lady Oscar. They're never gonna let you get because of the size of the part, because it was you, because it was me and I. But I am the leading lady in the film, right, So I want to run for leading Lady. And they said, but you won't win, and I said, I don't care. I'm not in it to win it. That's not the point here. The point is the actual work that I did right. And I did the work. You did the leading lady work for five months with Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci and James Woods. Right, I did the work right. So I'm going to be in the category for the work that I did, right, I'm not in it so that you'll say, oh, okay, right, okay, Sar, if you could have it, you can have the statue. Right now, I'm in the lane that I drove in perfectly and thanks. So I didn't expect to get the oscar because people don't think of me as an actress, you know. They don't think of me as a person who loves her craft, you know what I mean. Because I don't walk around saying that. I don't walk around saying like I'm a dramatic actress. I don't walk around having discussions on TV about my dramatic acting. Right. I don't talk about my art for right, because I don't think of it like that at all. To me. I know, Greta, Greta Garbo is looking at me like a literally, which is more. I used to have dinner with her and not with her. This is so wonderful. She lived like three blocks from me in New York when I was a young girl. She used to walk around New York her big hat and her big coat and her goloshes and me too, and we would go to this restaurant that was between our houses and sit alone at tables, facing each other, really, and we had dinner in this same restaurant, facing each other dozens of times. You're blowing me away. And I never spoke to her, and she never spoke to me. But alone in this restaurant, I sat with Greta Garbo. Wow, and that's the universe again, right, And she's looking at me like you're trying to explain this. I know, Greta Garbo. I feel like Grega Garbo right now. It's like trying to explain how the wind meets the trees. You're like, what I do. And this is why I love playing people that already lived, because I feel like I opened my soul and let them talk through me. And so I'm not a dramatic actress. I am a spiritual conduit. And when I have the extraordinary pleasure and honor of receiving a script that is actually intended for me, I know it when I get it, and I feel like I knew it when I got the Casino script. They didn't know it when I got the Casino script, and they were seeing so many other people really, and I was just like, I'm going to wait till they're done with that. Yeah, I love that. I love your ability to take a step back because I also feel like one of the big things in life is timing when you were seeing and to say, like, I'm supposed to play Phillis Stiller, and I know that, like I'm sitting here with you, right, I just know it. That's fantastic. Like there are people I'm supposed to play. It's going to happen or they're going to miss it. Right. I was great friends with Phillis. I went to her house, I had dinner with her multitudes of time. She taught me her laugh. You know, I know I was supposed to play her. She didn't even get famous at all until she was in her forties. I'm supposed to play Phyllis. I love, Like, like literature, I'm going to take a picture of it, like so I could post it and show people like you're trying to explain, yes, she really is, and that you have all those moments. It was just so wonderful. I would sit in this table that was to the like the left front, and she would sit on the back right looking forward, and I would sit in the left front looking back, and I used to just think This is so great My Dinners with Garbo. Welcome back to Table for two. As I mentioned at the beginning of the show, one of the amazing and endearing things about Sharon Stone is that she is so outspoken. Sharon talks very candidly about the harring events at the heart of her book, The Beauty of Living Twice. So in your memoir, you know, you're very honest about when you were in your early forties and you had the brain emerge and like that whole experience. It's so rivening. I'm telling you read this book and one of The Beauty of Living Twice available on amazone in any Star exactly good fun. The fact that you share that you crossed over and you saw people you love made me feel so at peace. Oh you should feel at peace and even though you got the kick in the chest to come back. Yeah, so I'd like to know about that and your grandmother coming saying don't move your yeah, this is These are like things because you and then your strength to say what are you doing here as you're being wheeled in, don't do that? This is I need to know more about this operation before you do it, Like, tell me about those things. That. So, first of all, when this happened to me, I felt very disenfranchised. I was not getting the help that I needed. So I didn't get to the hospital for three days of this brain blead home. I was home, Yeah, and I was calling and trying and asking and begging and bleeding and wanting to get to the hospital, but couldn't get there. Eventually, when I got to the hospital and I had the first MRI and they discovered the brain blead and they realized how long it had been going on, I was in really bad shape. Yeah, that's where I had the initial what I call like the white out, you know, where I was dying and coming back. They then immediately transferred me to a hospital that had a neurological I see you, and a neurological I see you is just a wheel, a circle around a nurse's station. It's not they're not rooms, and there's just ae drape separating each person. And it's an incredibly traumatic environment for many reasons, one of which is the neurological pain is unbelievably painful. First of all, you don't even know where it is because it's all over the place, and it's inside and outside of your body. So when it was happening, I was actually holding outside my head. I was holding above my head like I was holding yes in the crown chakra above my head. I was holding this space outside my head and holding onto it like it was sitting on top of my head screaming. I think I was holding my beingness, which was literally outside my body. And so after a few days of this screaming because they had missed it when they went in, well, they went in it through my phemeral artery and scanned and missed my why this was happening to me. So I'd been laying on one side, which was less painful, so the blood had pulled on the opposite side of my head, so they didn't know what was going on. And that's really heavy when everybody screaming and you're all fighting for your life or all of our beds are on scales and it's your body mass that they're measuring, right, So I lost eighteen percent of my body mass in the nine days I was in there. And you can only have like a guest at a time, and so my friends, my family are there. I had like my really my ride or die, best friend Donna Shavo. She slept in an alcove of a window in the hospital the entire week. You know, my mother sat outside the room. It was unreal, and I didn't meet and I didn't know what to do, and for some reason, they weren't putting me on nutrition. Yeah. I'm like about to ask you you're not you don't have an IVY with I'm satly yeah right, but like, I don't know what's going on. And my dad became so desperate and so he really, my dad, God rest, it is amazing. So he said, would you have a milkshake, honey? And I'm like, okay, Dad. He went to the store, he bought the milkshake, the ice cream, he bought ice, he bought milk. He went home, he made me a milkshake. He put it in a mason jar, packed it in ice, brought it to the hospital and fed it to me. Wow, okay, yeah, says everything right, Yeah right, I think because you know, my dad got a stop at Joe Cancer after that. Yeah. And I always said, you know that my dad, I know, said the prayer that I say for my children, which is give it to me. Yeah, give it to me. But any parent wants of course you say give it to me. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that my dad got sick because he said, give it to me, let her live, give it to me. Yeah. Wow. Sure. And I just think that that's what we do as barons. We say, give me the drama, give me what it is, let me garriott, let me help them, yeah, take me, take me. Yeah. But you were able to, I mean, between the stories of your mom and your dad and your dad doing that the strength the survivor, and you to be also to have the voice, because so many of us don't have the voice, the courage to say no, I don't want to do this. I don't understand this. This is power. You've been surrounded by so much power in your life. You emanate that so profoundly. I feel it's a hell of a survival story. It really it wasn't you know. It wasn't like a snappy comeback. No. You know. I had to learn to walk. Yeah, I had to learn to talk because I came out of it with a really bad stutter. I lost my depth perception right well, everything hearing blew out in my right ear. I mean I was walking on the tops of my feet when I left that husband. Yeah, it's amazing, you know, the narrative of your life that takes you from Pennsylvania and like you said, a poor but not a poor family because of everybody else, and then where you land because Middle America, my friend is poor. Yes, it's poor. Yeah, so's the painting that you're doing now? Is that an express? Like? How did that? Because you didn't go to university that you could have gone. I didn't go to university. Was university and I finished and got my bachelor's degree because I was out here and Hillary Clinton came to talk to a bunch of us and she was like, you know, you guys have so much power that you don't even realize. You can do anything you want to do. You're an artist, but you can go outside your art form. You can write a song, you can do this, you can do that. Because you have more power than you're using. You can do whatever you want. And I started. Really, I was sitting on the floor because so many of us came, there weren't places to sit. So I was sitting very near her, and I was thinking about what she was saying, and I thought, you know what, And so I wrote a song for Katrina and I wrote the title track song for Come Together Now to Come Together Now Katrina album. I wrote the lyrics WHOA, and I started getting people together. I'm like, we're going to write an album for katrain them, and everybody's like, you can't do that, and you can't get the artists and these artists are all under contract and blah blah blah, and you can't do it. And man, let me tell you the resistance I got. And I never really got the credit for writing the lyrics because you have to really give up everything in order to get anything done. But I didn't do it to get credit. I did it to get it done right right. And then Planet Hope, my sister Kelly and I's organization, we went down there and we got those soldiers who were holding all the supplies in the trucks because they took the trucks down there, but then they didn't give the stuff to the people. Okay, so the whole bullshit of we're taking all these trucks down here, yeah, they did, but they didn't open the trucks, so it was like getting them to open the trucks. We also planned to Hope went down there and we bought kegs of beer right for the soldiers because guess what, that's how you get the trucks open right, right. And then we bought things for people that like the little things, eye class prescriptions, how you get your diabetes, your insulin filled, how you get your dentures, all the things that like the little things that people couldn't get back right, And we did on the ground stuff. But you know, we had a lot of girls from New Orleans and Louisiana and we call them are steel Magnolias. Yeah, and those girls, those girls can get stuff done right. So we get stuff done on the ground. We worked with Burlington Coat Factory. We get coats for kids to go to school. We work with you people to donate their seconds so we can get shoes for these migrant workers kids. You got to get on the ground and get in there. So that's when I started being a lyricist because I was like, oh wait a second, I can write songs about things that matter, you know, like this Nobel Peace Prize winner was machine gun to death in his car going to the airport in South America because he was in a car convoy and it was supposed to be like a cartel guy that was was going to be hit and they hit the wrong person. So I wrote a song about that guy. What's it like to know that as these killers are coming towards your car that that's it. It's the end of your life. And you spent your life about peace. You're such an artist, right, I mean, you're such a prolific artist to owe you to thank you, to express yourself. And so I thought, you know what, I can do these things. So I went back to college and got mine my bachelor's degree exactly because it's like, yes, I can do this. I can do this, and I'm going to go get my bachelor's degree. And when it came in the mail, I was so proud, Sharon, as we said of wrap a lunch because I can literally sit with you. We're going to have many lunches together our home and not always I obtes I have questions for you. You do yes? Oh my god, I want to say, who interviews you? I'm gonna come and interview you for your interviews? Would you do that? Yes? Yes, Bruce Bozzy Sharon Stone, Yeah, okay, you heard that. We're gonna do that. Be an honor. Um. I've described you as a champion, as a survivor, as a truth teller, as easy on the eyes. But I'm also going to say you're pretty chick and you have to read the beauty to understand what that means. 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