WHY BASIC INSTINCT COST SHARON HER SON
Woman's Day Australia|March 27, 2023
It was a defining role but the film's risque scene ended in a custody nightmare
WHY BASIC INSTINCT COST SHARON HER SON

Sharon Stone has made the heartbreaking confession that she lost custody of her son in 2004 because of her racy role in Basic Instinct.

The 65-year-old actress claims a divorce judge asked her "tiny little boy", four-year-old Roan, "Do you know your mother makes sex movies?" during a family court battle with then-husband Phil Bronstein.

Sharon - who was granted visitation rights while her newspaper editor ex received primary custody - claims it was an "abuse by the system - that I was considered what kind of parent I was, because I made that movie"

This story is from the March 27, 2023 edition of Woman's Day Australia.

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