Sharon Stone recently appeared on David Begnaud’s The Person Who Believed in Me podcast, at which point she revisited an unsavory memory from the early 2000s where she found out that she had breast tumors.

Even worse than the bleak diagnosis, she recalled, was the reaction she got from her then-husband. 

A devastating diagnosis followed by an even more devastating response

“One of [the tumors] was bigger than the size of my entire left breast,” Stone told Begnaud, saying that the doctor who had made a house visit suggested a “bilateral mastectomy,” since her condition likely pointed towards cancer. 

Despite feeling like her tumors weren’t cancerous, Stone decided at that moment to undergo the surgery, which made her ex (whom she didn’t name, but many people believe was journalist Phil Bronstein, whom she was married to between 1998 and 2004) “furious.”

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“My husband said, ‘This is ridiculous!’ And got up and left the room,” said Stone. 

Seemingly incredulous, Begnaud clarified, “He was mad about the breasts being removed,” to which Stone replied, “Yeah. And so the doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down.’ And I said, ‘I make the decisions, not........

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