Sharon Stone has revealed she lost half her money in the recent banking crisis.
The Hollywood actress shared the news during a fundraising gala for a cancer charity in the US last week, according to the Daily Mail.
Urging guests to donate what money they could, she apparently told the audience: “I just lost half my money to this banking thing and that doesn’t mean I’m not still here.”
It isn’t clear which bank the 65-year-old, who is worth a reported $60 million (£50m), lost her money with.
However, the Women’s Cancer Fund gala she attended took place days after the collapse of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank in the US.
The bank collapses are the largest failures in US history after the Washington Mutual Bank folder during the 2008 financial crisis.
Although Sharon says she has lost half her fortune, the US Federal Reserve have stepped in to guarantee all deposits held at the two banks are safe.
This means that although she is affected, it is unlikely she will actually lose any of her money in the bank collapse.
The Mirror has reached out to Sharon's reps for further comment.
The latest blow comes after Sharon recently opened up on some of the hardships she has endured since becoming famous.
She suffered a near-fatal stroke at the age of just 43 in 2001 and had a tumour removed from her breast after initially being misdiagnosed with cancer.
The actress told PEOPLE magazine she was prepared to have her breasts removed after the tumour showed up during a routine mammogram.
She said: “I was told I had breast cancer, because I had a tumour that was larger than my breast – and they were sure that I couldn’t possibly have that tumour without it being cancer.”
Revealing she told doctors to give her a mastectomy if it was cancer, she added: “I went into hospital saying ‘if you open me and it’s cancer, please take my breasts, because I am not a person defined by my breasts.”
In her recent memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, which was released in 2021, Sharon shared the tumours turned out to be benign.
But a plastic surgeon gave her larger breast implants without her consent when she was undergoing reconstruction surgery.
In the book, she wrote: “When I was unbandaged, I discovered I had a full cup size bigger breasts.
“Ones he said ‘go better with your hip size’. He had changed my body without my knowledge or consent.”
Sharon also recently opened up about losing custody of her son during a bitter divorce battle with her ex-husband in 2004.
The star said a judge questioned her parenting abilities because she had appeared in erotic thriller Basic Instinct, which propelled her to fame in the 1990s.
She told the iHeart Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast: “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? It was considered that’s what kind of parent I was because I made that movie.”
Sharon struggled to conceive naturally so has three adopted sons. Roan, who is 22, has already followed his mum into acting and recently starred in the film What About Love.
She is also mum to sons Laird, 17, and Quinn, 16, who she has raised as a single parent.
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