Solène Delinger 2 p.m., March 11, 2023

Guest of the “Table for Two” podcast broadcast on Tuesday March 7, 2023, Sharon Stone confided in a traumatic episode in her life: the day a judge refused to grant her sole custody of her eldest son because of his scene. sulphurous in the cult film "Basic Instinct". 

Basic Instinct 

propelled her to the rank of world superstar but also cost her dearly... Invited to an episode of the

Table for Two

podcast , broadcast on Tuesday March 7, 2023, Sharon Stone revealed that she had lost custody of her eldest son Roan at because of his role in the cult film directed by Paul Verhoeven. 

"You know your mom makes sex movies?"

"I lost custody of my child," the 64-year-old actress first says in the podcast.

Back then, in 2004, Sharon Stone was battling ex-husband Phil Bronstein to gain sole custody of Roan, their 8-year-old adopted son.

"The judge asked my child, my tiny little boy, 'Do you know your mom makes sex movies?'" she recalled.

The judge was referring to the mythical Basic Instinct

interrogation scene

in which Sharon Stone is not wearing panties.

It was ultimately Phil Bronstein who obtained custody of Roan because he was able to "offer him a more stable environment".

Sharon Stone was only granted visitation rights. 

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“We decided what kind of parent I was based on my decision to make this film”

“We decided what kind of parent I was based on my decision to make this film,” Sharon Stone laments today.

"People walk around naked on TV. You saw me naked for maybe a sixteenth of a second, and I lost custody of my child," she adds.

The same year, Sharon Stone had to be hospitalized because of heart problems.

Should we see a link with the judge's decision?

"It literally broke my heart," says the star. 

Basic Instinct

marked a turning point in Sharon Stone's career.

When the film was released in 1992, the then 34-year-old actress was completely unknown to the general public.

It will have been enough of his sulphurous crossing of legs for the whole world to know his name.

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"I slapped Paul Verhoeven"

This erotic scene is today the subject of a big disagreement between Sharon Stone and Paul Verhoeven.

Because the actress assures that she was not aware that her private parts were going to be filmed.

"After shooting

Basic Instinct,

I was called to see him.

But not only in the presence of the director, as one might expect (…) but in a room full of lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project.

That's how I saw my vagina close-up for the first time, long after I was told, 'We won't see anything, I just need you to take your panties off because the white color makes the light reflect.

I went to the projection booth, I slapped Paul [Verhoeven], I left and I called my lawyer", thus wrote the star in her memoir published in March 2021 and entitled The beauty of living 

twice .