Sharon Stone Says She Met ‘Convicted Felon’ and Man with ‘20,000 Heroin Injections’ While Online Dating

Mar. 15, 2025

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Sharon Stoneis opening up about her mixed experiences with online dating.

In a new interview with U.K. newspaperThe Timespublished Friday, the actress, 65, recalled how one man she met was a convicted felon, while another, she told the outlet, was “a heroin addict who’s clearly 20,000 heroin injections later than the picture he sent me.”

Stone met the latter at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and detailed to the publication that she dipped on their date, explaining, “I tell the waiter, ‘I’ll have a glass of water.’ He had a cocktail: absinthe or something. And I said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t stay.’ ”

However, Stone admitted that she has also had some positive experiences with dating apps, including two relationships that remained virtual during theCOVID-19 pandemic.

Sharon Stone at 92NY in New York City.Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

“I was almost like a therapist,” she said. “One whose wife told him she wanted a divorce and they had two little kids. He was struggling to process it. And [the other] had broken up with his girlfriend. She had gotten pregnant and instead of marrying, she got an abortion … He was still very much in love with her and I helped him process it. It was really rewarding for both of us. I don’t know how to explain it.”

And when it comes to her dating life, Stone has high hopes for 2024. “This is the year that I want to fall in love — 100 percent,” she toldThe Times.

She continued, “You don’t look for a list and then your list arrives. That’s what people do who don’t have relationships. So that they can comfort themselves with the fact that they don’t have a relationship and feel that they’re actively making an effort towards that happening in their lives.”

Sharon Stone and her ex-husband Phil Bronstein at the AMFAR 2nd Annual Seasons of Hope Awards.Ke.Mazur/WireImage

Ke.Mazur/WireImage

In February 2023, Stone’s friend andThe MusecostarAndie MacDowellrevealed that the Oscar nominee had beengiving her online dating advice.

“I did have Sharon Stone reach out to me to tell me that she’s on Raya,” revealed MacDowell, 65, during anappearanceonThe Jennifer Hudson Show. “Raya, that’s the one I’m going to do. She said she met two gay guys on there and that was all that she got from Raya!”

“But it sounds kind of fun anyway. That could be fun,” she continued to hostJennifer Hudson.

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Stone was also previously married to writer and producer Michael Greenburg, 72, from 1984-1987.

In October, Stonetold PEOPLEshe was “grateful that I chose motherhood as a healthy approach to my life and that I didn’t prioritize Hollywood, because they certainly didn’t prioritize me.”

“I’m grateful that I chose the things that I did choose,” she added, calling her three sons “wonderful kids."

source: people.com