Sharon Stone claims she had $27 million 'taken' from her while she recovered from her stroke

Actress Sharon Stone has opened up about her near-death experience after she experienced a stroke in 2001.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress recalled how the stroke led to a nine-day brain bleed.

"I had a death experience and then they brought me back. I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face. It wasn't positioned in my head where it was before," she told the outlet.

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"And while that was happening, everything changed," she shared, "My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn't read for a couple of years. Things were stretched and I was seeing colour patterns. A lot of people thought I was going to die."

The actress, now 66, had suffered from a brain hemorrhage from a ruptured vertebral artery, and was given a one percent chance of survival.

She ended up losing her hearing in one ear and having 23 platinum coils surgically implanted into her brain. It took her seven years to fully recover from the injury.

But it was what she alleges happened during and after the incident that was more shocking, with Stone revealing that she had taken "advantage" of "over that time" when she was vulnerable, leading her to lose around $27 million, as well other personal items.

"I had $US 18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone – everything was in other people's names... I had zero money."

The actress took the loss in stride, saying, "I decided to stay present and let go. I decided not to hang onto being sick or to any bitterness or anger.

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"If you bite into the seed of bitterness, it never leaves you. But if you hold faith, even if that faith is the size of a mustard seed, you will survive. So, I live for joy now. I live for purpose."

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