Sharon Stone opens up about losing custody of her child after her role as Basic Instinct

Sharon Stone caused a stir with her role in the ’90s film Basic Instinct, but the film’s personal fallout proved heartbreaking.

Stone, who played Catherine Tramell in the 1992 erotic thriller starring Michael Douglas, spoke about the impact the film’s overt sexuality had on her personal life during an appearance on Tuesday’s Table for Two podcast.

The actress told host Bruce Bozzi that she lost custody of her son in the wake of the film’s fast-paced legacy. Stone is the mother of sons Roan Bronstein, 22, Laird Stone, 17, and Quinn Stone, 16. She shares Roan with journalist Phil Bronstein.

“I lost custody of my child,” Stone said. “When the judge asked my child, my little boy, ‘Do you know that your mother makes sex films?’ That kind of abuse by the system that it took into account what kind of parent I am because I made this film.”

She added, “People are now walking around completely naked on regular TV and you’ve seen maybe a 1/16 second of possible nudity from me – and I’ve lost custody of my child.”

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Stone said losing custody affected her physical health. “I ended up at the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she said. “It broke my heart.”

Stone has previously spoken about the grueling process of producing Basic Instinct, which became the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1992, with the New Yorker in 2021.

“(Director Paul) Verhoeven ended up in the hospital — his sinus thing burst and he couldn’t stop having a nosebleed,” Stone told the outlet. “There was a lot of pressure on that set.”

At the time of publication, the Motion Picture Association of America wanted to give “Basic Instinct” an “unusual and potentially financially crippling NC-17 rating (no under-17 admissions allowed),” the New York Times wrote at the time. In the film’s most infamous, shocking scene, Stone’s character spreads her legs while wearing a white dress, revealing that she is not wearing any underwear.

“Today people walk around showing their penises on Netflix, but back in the day what we did was very new,” Stone continued. “It was a feature film for a big studio, and we had nudity, sex, homosexuality, all those things that broke norms in my day.”

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Contributors: Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY