Sharon Stone knew her marriage was 'over' when husband questioned her getting mastectomy despite massive tumor
Sharon Stone knew her marriage was 'over' when husband questioned her getting mastectomy despite massive tumor
Wesley StenzelWed, June 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM UTC
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Sharon Stone at the 'Variety' 2025 Power of Women eventCredit: Maya Dehlin Spach/GettyKey points -
Sharon Stone said she decided to get a double mastectomy when doctors discovered tumors in her breasts.
She claimed that her then-husband called the decision "ridiculous" and that he was "furious" about the procedure.
Though Stone didn't ultimately undergo the surgery, she said that the incident marked "the end of the marriage."
Sharon Stone is reflecting on a life-changing medical decision.
The Basic Instinct actress appeared on the Person Who Believed in Me podcast on Monday, where she shared her troubling memories about learning that she had breast tumors in the early 2000s.
"One of them was bigger than the size of my entire left breast," Stone remembered on the podcast. "And the doctor had come out to my house and said, 'Look, we think you should have a bilateral mastectomy. This is really bad. And we usually, when they're all the way up into here, we know before we go in that they're cancer.'"
Stone was certain that the tumors weren't cancerous. "I said, 'I don't have cancer,'" she recalled. "And he said, 'You don't get to decide that.' And I said, 'I do. I do get to decide that. I'm deciding.'"
The actress opted to play it safe and undergo a double mastectomy. "I am deciding that I will have a bilateral because I'm not f---ing around," she remembered saying at the time.
Sharon Stone at the 'AI: Artificial Intelligence' premiere in 2001Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Stone claimed that she was not supported in her decision.
"My husband said, 'This is ridiculous,'" she said. "And got up and left the room."
Host David Begnaud then asked the actress, "Which part was ridiculous?"
She responded, "That I would have a bilateral [mastectomy]. He was furious."
Begnaud asked, "Oh, not that the cancer, if it was true, might kill you?"
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"No, no," the actress said.
The host responded, "He was mad about the breasts being removed?"
Stone confirmed, "Yeah. And so the doctor said to him, 'If I had more patients like her, we'd have more women alive today. You need to sit down.' And I said, 'I make the decisions, not you.'"
The Casino actress said that the decision marked a turning point in her relationship with her husband. "That was the end of the marriage," she claimed. "That was it. He was done with me then. It was over."
She added, "It was just over in the room. You could just tell. It was over. It was just over. He thought I was ridiculous. He thought it was foolish. He thought I was making too many decisions myself."
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Sharon Stone at the Cannes Film Festival in MayCredit: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
Stone did not ultimately undergo a double mastectomy, as the tumors were benign. She previously revealed that when she underwent surgery to remove the tumors, the surgeon gave her larger breast implants without her consent.
"When I was unbandaged, I discovered that I had a full cup-size bigger breasts, ones that he said 'go better with your hip size,'" Stone said in her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice (via PEOPLE). "He had changed my body without my knowledge or consent."
The actress said that the surgeon "thought that I would look better with bigger, 'better' boobs."
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