Sharon Stone Reveals Doctors Found 'Large Fibroid Tumor' in Her Body Following Misdiagnosis

Mar. 15, 2025

Sharon Stoneis urging women to always “get a second opinion” from medical professionals after she received a misdiagnosis that turned out to be a “large fibroid tumor.”

On Tuesday,The Specialistactress shared via Instagram Story she “just had another misdiagnosis and incorrect procedure,” adding that she had to receive a “double epidural” to treat the pain.

After the pain worsened, Stone, 64, said she decided to seek a second opinion from a different doctor who told her she had “a large fibroid tumor that must come out.”

Reflecting on her experience, the actress encouraged her followers to never settle for a first medical opinion.

“Ladies in particular: Don’t get blown off ❣️GET A SECOND OPINION ❣️ It can save your life 🙏🏻💥,” she wrote Monday. “I’ll be down for 4-6 weeks for full recovery. Thx for your care. It’s all good 💪🏻 🙏🏻.”

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This isn’t the first time the Golden Globe winner has had to go through an excision. Last year, she revealed in her memoirThe Beauty of Living Twicethat in 2001 doctors had to remove benign tumors from her body that were"gigantic, bigger than my breast alone."

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In her autobiography which was released last March, Stone also wroteabout the stroke and cerebral hemorrhage she experienced in 2001, at age 43. Speaking about that harrowing health scare with Willie Geist onToday, Stone said she was lying in a hospital bed when a doctor told her she was close to death.

“The room was so silent,“she told Geist, 47, at the time. “When the room is so silent and no one’s running around trying to fix you, that’s when you realize how near death is and how serious everything is.”

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Stone recovered and took a two-year break from actingas she rebuilt her health, but said in a 2019 interview withVarietythat the strokestunted her career. She went from being at the top of her game following 1992’sBasic Instinctand 1995’sCasinoto struggling to find work for seven years, while alsolosing primary custody of her adopted son Roan.

“People treated me in a way that was brutally unkind,” Stone explained at the time. “From other women in my own business to the female judge who handled my custody case, I don’t think anyone grasps how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover.”

source: people.com