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She was almost decapitated while breaking in a wild horse.
The clothesline sliced into her neck, and Stone slipped through the stirrups.
Her mom pulled her free as the horse began to drag her.
My neck was hanging open, wet and ripped from one ear to the other, Stone describes.
She bled excessively after a secret abortion in college.
Stones first serious boyfriend got her pregnant when she was 18.
Sexually inexperienced, she writes that she didnt realize it would happen.
So I stayed in my room and bled for days.
I was weak and scared and then just weak.
Eventually, a local Planned Parenthood opened that provided her with birth control and counseling.
No one ever had, about anything.
Her family was threatened after her brother went to jail for cocaine.
She had a hemorrhage in Zimbabwe and had to wait for it to stop without treatment.
Stone traveled to the African country in the 80s to filmKing Solomons Mines.
What the hell was happening?
They were so sick, so terribly sick, writhing in agony, suffering, screaming out in pain.
Stone eventually stopped bleeding and left the hospital without meds or a transfusion.
She thought she accidentally became a murderer while filming the opening sequence forBasic Instinct.
In the scene from the 1992 film, Stones character stabs a victim to death with an ice pick.
She remembers the director screaming for her to hit harder and demanding more fake blood as they shot.
When the actor stopped responding, Stone worried that the prop had malfunctioned and shed actually killed him.
Instead, she had apparently hit him so many times in the chest that he had passed out.
I was horrified, naked, and stained with fake blood.
And now this, Stone remembers.
She hit black ice while driving on a road that ran directly down into a lake.
She skipped all her medical needs for a decade.
In other words, shut up and deal.
She asked Travolta if they could dance onstage as a personal goal for herself.
She had a prolapsed valve in her heart after losing primary custody of her son.
Stone was told that there was an extra beat in her hearts upper and lower chambers.
My heart, it seemed, was actually broken, she writes.
