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Sharon Stone owes Lorne Michaels her life. While speaking with Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade on their Fly on the Wall podcast, Stone called the SNL creator “a wonderful person,” claiming that “he personally saved [her] life” during her 1992 guest appearance on the show, per the AV Club.
Noting that she was “so excited” and “really scared,” she recalled that “a bunch of people started storming the stage saying they were gonna kill [her] during the opening monologue.”
“And the police that are always in there during all that and the security that’s always in there froze because they’d never seen anything like that happen,” she recounted. “They sort of, they froze.”
However, Michaels sprung into action, she said.
“And Lorne started screaming, ‘What are you guys doing, watching the fucking show?'” she explained. “And Lorne started, himself, beating up and pulling these people back from the stage.”
She said that the stage manager had instructed her to “hold for five.” However, she “thought he meant five minutes, and he meant five seconds.”
“So all these people were getting beat up and handcuffed right in front of me, and we went live,” she revealed. “I was doing this monologue while they were beating up and handcuffing people at my feet.”
A 1992 story from the Orlando Sentinel reported that six individuals were arrested, and featured a quote from James Wagner, a spokesperson for the protesters, explaining that they were “protesting Hollywood’s homophobia and misogyny as exemplified in the film.” Stone had starred in Basic Instinct that year as Catherine Tramell, who is bisexual and revealed to be a killer, per the AV Club.
The film has spurred further controversy for Stone; she revealed last year on Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi that she lost custody over her son after the judge claimed that she “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,” she said.
