Sharon Stone Says She Lost Custody Of Her Son After Judge Called ‘Basic Instinct’ A “Sex Movie”: “It Broke My Heart’

Sharon Stone recently opened up about one of the biggest movies of her career in a new interview.

Appearing on the iHeartRadio show Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, the award-winning actress looked back on what it was like working on Basic Instinct. She recalled that she ended up losing custody of her son Roan because she starred in the career-defining movie.

“I lost custody of my child,” she said. “When the judge asked my child – my tiny little boy, ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies?’ This kind of abuse by the system, that it was considered what kind of parent I was because I made that movie.”

Stone had adopted Roan with her then-husband Phil Bronstein in 2000. When Bronstein filed for divorce in 2003, the judge denied her request for full custody of their son in favor of Bronstein. 

She explained that the experience was so stressful for her that she developed health problems. “I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart,” she revealed. “It broke my heart.”

“People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe like a sixteenth of a second of possible nudity of me – and I lost custody of my child,” she said.

The actress, who went on to win a Golden Globe for her performance in Casino, pointed out that the industry can get away with a lot more now in television and movies than you could back then.

“Now people walk around showing their penises on Netflix, but, in the olden days, what we were doing was very new,” she said. “This was a feature film for a major studio, and we had nudity, sex, homosexuality, all these things that, in my era, were breaking norms.”