Sharon Stone opens up about drug-free life

Actress reveals she stopped taking stroke medication and later quit marijuana to embrace a drug-free lifestyle

Actor Sharon Stone has opened up about major personal changes in her life, revealing that she stopped taking one of her stroke medications despite doctors advising her not to, and later decided to quit smoking marijuana as part of her effort to live a drug-free life.

Stone, who suffered a near-fatal stroke in 2001, spoke about her health journey while discussing her recent creative comeback, including her return to painting, modeling and plans for a possible Broadway debut. “I got off one of my medications that I was on for my stroke last September, and they said I couldn’t go off of it,” Stone said, adding, “They said, ‘You can’t go off of it. You can never go off of it.’ I’m like, ‘I’m going off it,’ and it was like going off of fucking heroin. I was sick as a frigging dog for four and a half months,” she said as quoted by Variety. Stone said her decision came from a desire to regain control of her life after years of taking medications following her stroke.

“I just thought, ‘I want my life back.’ I had gotten off the majority of the drugs over the years that they had put me on. But I was like, ‘I want a drug-free life,’” she said. After stopping that medication, Stone said she also decided to quit smoking marijuana. She explained that the experience was difficult and that she became ill after giving up cannabis.

“Once I got off that, I decided I’m going to quit smoking pot,” Stone said, adding, “And because I think they put so much stuff in it now- they really do- when I stopped smoking pot, I also got sick.” Stone added that her neurologist warned her about serious health concerns linked to marijuana use. “I went to my neurologist, and he said, ‘Sharon, I’ve had people dying in the emergency room from marijuana,’” she said.

The actor shared these details while sitting at her Beverly Hills estate, where she was also showcasing another major part of her life: her artwork. Stone, who studied fine arts in college before leaving to pursue modeling, said her interest in painting grew significantly during the COVID-19 lockdown. What began as a small creative project became an intense artistic pursuit. Stone transformed her bedroom into a studio before eventually moving her work into a guest house.