Sharon Stone claims doctors thought she was “faking” brain haemorrhage

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Sharon Stone has claimed that doctors thought that she was “faking” what turned out to be a brain haemorrhage in 2001.That year, Stone was hospitalised after suffering a stroke that led to a bleed on her brain – something that lasted for nine days.

The Basic Instinct star was given just a one per cent chance of survival after the incident.In a new interview with Vogue Stone recalled waking up in hospital in LA with a crippling headache.“I remember waking up on a gurney and asking the kid wheeling it where I was going, and him saying, ‘brain surgery,'” the actress said.“A doctor had decided, without my knowledge or consent, that he should give me exploratory brain surgery and sent me off to the operating room.

What I learned through that experience is that in a medical setting, women often just aren’t heard, particularly when you don’t have a female doctor.”She continued: “They missed it with the first angiogram and decided that I was faking it.

My best friend talked them into giving me a second one and they discovered that I had been haemorrhaging into my brain, my whole subarachnoid pool, and that my vertebral artery was ruptured.