Actress Sharon Stone, 64, said so he sacrificed his career to be an activist in the fight for HIV-AIDS research.
Sharon Stone said so it didn’t work for eight years after replacing her late friend Elizabeth Taylor, president of amfAr (The Foundation of Aids Research) at the organization’s annual fundraising gala in Cannes in 1995, she revealed Deadline.
A role too big for her according to her, who told it like this. “I had to fill very big shoes like Elizabeth Taylor’s,” she told a talk at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia on Friday, December 2, adding that her publicist at the time had told him: “If you do this kind of thing, you will destroy your career”.
“You have to remember that at that time, in the mid-90s, it was not allowed to talk about AIDS. So, I told him, I know, you’re going to kill me, but I will.”
a tough fight
When Stone, a true symbol of 90s cinema, starred in base instinctsin 1992, to replace Taylor for the next three years “I had no idea of the resistance, cruelty, hatred and oppression we would face”, revealed the actress.
Sharon Stone recalled wanting to know more about the disease. “I remember then putting on a hazmat suit and asking them to show me the retrovirus under a microscope. I thought I really needed to see this thing that was driving everyone crazy.”
It was only for three years, but Stone stayed for 25 years. “Until we advertised AIDS remedies on TV as if they were aspirin. It partly destroyed my career, I haven’t worked for eight years and they also told me if I said condoms again they would defund me; the entire organization has received threats, my life was threatened but i decided to carry on“, He added.
However, the actress, born in Meadville, USA, with more than 60 films and an Academy Award, for the film casinoin 1995, he did not apologize, noting that AIDS killed 40 million people before the introduction of antiretroviral drugs.
“Now 37 million people are living with HIV in a healthy way,” said the actress as she wiped away her tears.
a second opinion
As recently as last November, the actress experienced a delicate health situation due to a misdiagnosis of a large fibroid tumor. That misdiagnosis led to a double epidural to treat her pain.
But with the pain not easing, Stone sought a second opinion from another doctor who told her she had a fibroid that needed to be removed.
From her social accounts, the actress has tried to raise awareness among her followers to always seek a second opinion. “Women especially, don’t be impressed and Get a second opinion, it can save your life.“, he indicated.
She then added that she would be inactive for 4 weeks to fully recover. “Everything is fine now.”
Uterine fibroids or fibroids are the most common noncancerous tumors among women of childbearing age that develop in or around the uterus; many patients don’t know they have fibroids because they don’t cause any symptoms.
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Source: Clarin
