Sharon Stone's Complicated Grief

Anderson Cooper· Host0:01

Welcome to All There Is. Wherever you are in the world and in your grief, I'm glad you're here. My guest today is actress, writer, artist Sharon Stone. In 2001, she had a near fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage. Took her nearly seven years to recover, and she says she's now living her second life. In her 2021 memoir, she wrote, "The lessons of my second life are of recovering from loss, the loss of all things we call dear, my father, my three closest friends, my marriage, my health, the custody of my son, my career, my financial stability. One might say my identity. The grief and sense of failure that this caused was terribly, awfully overwhelming." Well, soon after that memoir came out, Sharon experienced the death of her 11-month-old nephew, River. Then two years later, his father, Sharon's brother, Patrick, died, and in 2025, Sharon's mom died as well. Sharon Stone is 68 now. She most recently starred in Euphoria on HBO. She has three sons through adoption, Rome, Laird, and Quinn. I spoke to her several weeks ago. When you think of grief, what do you think of?

Sharon Stone· Guest1:10

I think of the way that I've dealt with it in my life, of losing so many members of my immediate family.

Anderson Cooper· Host1:18

Hmm.

Sharon Stone· Guest1:19

But I then think about it in the way that it's imposed on us with the, n- no offense to Hallmark, but the sort of greeting card industry,