Sharon Stone says sex has "long been expected" in the acting world.
Sharon Stone
The Hollywood star insists she didn't sleep with anyone to "get into the business" but opened up about her own experiences of sexual abuse and recalled how one director told her to sit on his lap whilst he gave her direction for a scene.
Speaking to L'Officiel magazine, she said: "Sex has long been expected in my craft. I certainly didn't sleep [with anyone] to get into the business. But that didn't stop me from being sexually abused all my life by people I knew and who I did not know."
Meanwhile, Sharon previously revealed she hopes her memoir will help other women who have felt harassed and violated on set.
The 63-year-old star has revealed stories of misbehaviour by men in Hollywood in her memoir, 'The Beauty of Living Twice', and she's come out in support of women who have been harassed, saying they deserve their "day in court".
She wrote: "I know that all of these women and men who have been harassed, been raped, had their jobs held for ransom, and been sexually tormented deserve their day in court. I know that to be true. I know that all of the unprocessed rape kits on police shelves everywhere must be processed so that crimes can be solved. This inaction is a true and real crime in itself."
In her book, Sharon detailed her experience of being sexually abused by her grandfather.
He passed away when she was just 14 and Sharon recalled taking a "bizarre satisfaction" in seeing him dead.
She said: "I poked him, and the bizarre satisfaction that he was at last dead hit me like a ton of ice."
Sharon also recalled how her surgeon enhanced her breast size without her consent when she had an operation to remove benign tumours from her body in 2001. She had never asked for the procedure but when she woke up from the surgery, she discovered she had a "full cup-size bigger breasts" than before because the surgeon thought it suited her better.
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