Sharon Stone Reveals the Health Scare That Ended Her Marriage: 'He Was Done With Me Then'

Sharon Stoneis finally speaking out about some of the hardships she faced years earlier, and the health scare that was the final straw in ending her second marriage.

While appearing on David Begnaud’s The Person Who Believed In Me podcast, the actor not only opened up about the devastating attack from 10 years ago, but also the moment she knew her marriage was over. Stone faced a major health scare in the early 2000s that her to learns she had tumors in both breasts.

She recalls one of the tumors being “bigger than the size of my entire left breast.” To learn more about the possibility of cancer and treatment, she had a doctor come to her home who 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.”

Despite what the doctor said, Stone knew the tumors were benign and wholeheartedly believed she didn’t have cancer. Her stance didn’t sit well with the doctor, who felt she didn’t have a choice in deciding that, “and I said, ‘I do. I do get to decide that. I’m deciding.’”

Alongside learning about the tumors and a plan of action, Stone never expected her then-husband to have a reaction that would change everything. The Casino actor decided to undergo surgery, with her ex-husband making it clear he didn’t support her decision.

“My husband said, ‘This is ridiculous,’” she recalled. “And got up and left the room.”

To add fuel to the fire, Begnaud asked for clarification on what her then-husband was angry over. Stone verified that he was “furious” at her decision to have a bilateral mastectomy and not the reality of the tumors being cancerous. In the end, his reaction to her having both breasts removed was the final straw in their marriage.

“And so the doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down.’ And I said, ‘I make the decisions, not you,’” she shared.

“That was the end of the marriage. That was it. He was done with me then. It was over,” she added. “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.”

Thankfully, Stone learned that her tumors were in fact benign and didn’t have to undergo a double mastectomy.

During the podcast, Stone doesn’t mention the name of her ex-husband. Based on the timeline of when the health scare occurred, she was married to her second husband, Phil Bronstein. They married in 1998 and later divorced in 2004.

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