She Was at the Top of Her Game
Stone took a two-year hiatus from acting to rebuild herself, but she is sure that it stunted her career. She went from the top of her game, after 1992’s Basic Instinct and 1995’s Casino, to struggling for seven years to find work. To make matters even worse, she lost primary custody of her adopted son Roan.
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Stone said that people were “brutally unkind” to her. From other women in the business to the female judge who handled her custody case, people weren’t really grasping just how “dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover.”