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This is encouraging,Jerry Saltztold the audience at Vulture Festival 2023.
All you losers, you could grow up to be Sharon Stone.
In order for Sharon Stone to become Sharon Stone, she basically had to die.
The near-death experiences of Sharon Stone are legendary.
Stone said these experiences felt like lessons that she was unwilling to learn.
They only took after Stone had a seizure at her dentists office.
My dentist, super-cool woman, Stone said.
Stone suffered a seizure after getting anesthetized for a root canal.
After seizing, Stone decided to go through with the procedure.
Why waste the novocaine, you know?
No, teaching forgiveness.
Stone said, Thats incredible, I said.
Can you do that for me?
From her dentist, Stone learned how to forgive herself, especially for her missteps as a mother.
And thats how I ended up painting, she said.
From there, she turned her whole bedroom into a studio and worked, worked, worked.
Before I knew it, I was selling my bedroom furniture, she said.
Stones painting practice came out of her self-forgiveness, but her career came out of her generosity.
Stone made a painting for Anastasia Soare (brow guru of Beverly Hills).
Stone made up a price, $30,000, which folks were willing to pay.
And from there, Stone got her own solo show.
Stone says a lot of the work of painting is about getting out of her own way.
This is why I worked so well with Paul Verhoeven, she said.
He said, Theres an angel that flies through you.
Just get out of the way.
