The actress got candid about her relationship with her parents on David Begnaud's Podcast, "The Person Who Believed in Me"
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- Sharon Stone opens up to David Begnaud about how confronting her father at 14 stopped his abusive behavior and changed their relationship
- Stone appeared on the June 2 episode of The Person Who Believed in Me podcast and described her father as empathetic and chivalrous despite their difficult past, saying they later became very close
- She also discussed her near-fatal brain bleed and early career struggles with being deemed not “sexy enough”
Sharon Stone is opening up about her relationship with her father on a new episode of The Person Who Believed in Me podcast, hosted by CBS correspondent David Begnaud.
"My dad was quite a fantastic guy, super empathetic really. He was so sophisticated and tough and smart and cool," Stone tells Begnaud in the episode, available now. However, she says that he wasn't always gentle.
"He was harder on me than he was my younger brother," Stone said. "Finally I confronted him when I was 14, because he was a hitter."
Stone continued, "Yeah, he would throw me down a flight of stairs and then the belt would come off. You know, that belt would come off and then I would get a real whipping, you know? And finally, at 14, I told him off. I really told him off."
The Oscar nominee recalled, "I remember specifically that he was yelling at me to come down those stairs, right? God damn now. And I came down the stairs like the Queen of France, like one step at a time, and then walked up to his face and said, 'Why? Do you need to hit me some more to feel like a man? Is that what's going on here? Because if you do, let's get [on] with it. But I will never love you again. I'm done.'"
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She says her words had an impact on her father.
"He cried. And he never hit anybody again. It was over. And then we started talking. He would talk to me. He stopped hitting…and we became very close."
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In the episode, Stone also reveals her complicated relationship with her mother, the brain bleed that nearly killed her, and how she couldn't get parts in the beginning of her career because she wasn't deemed "sexy enough."
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Stone says that throughout her life and career, her father would go on to become her closest confidant.
"He had that touch of kings. He was such a gentleman. Like he would never let someone be bullied. He would never let someone be racially profiled or profiled by their gender or their gender choices… he was the guy who stood up when a woman entered the room. He pulled my mother's chair out for dinner every night. I mean, he was, he was so chivalrous and yet so tough."
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