Sharon Stone has recounted how she was struck by lightning while doing the ironing at home.
Metro reports that in an interview with Brett Goldstein on his Films to Be Buried With podcast, the 62-year-old said: "I was at home. We had our own well. I was filling the iron with water."
"I had one hand on the faucet, one hand on the iron and the well got hit with lightning and the lightning came up through the water," the Basic Instinct star continued.
"I got picked up and thrown across the kitchen, and I hit the refrigerator. I was like, 'Whoa!'"
Stone's mother Dorothy was luckily there to come to her aid.
"My mother was standing there, and my mother just belted me across the face and brought me to," she told the host. "I was in such an altered state, like, just so, I don't know how to describe it - so bright, like wow'."
Stone said her mother "threw me in the car and drove me to the hospital".
"And the EKG [electrocardiogram] was showing such electricity in my body," she added, explaining that she underwent EKG tests for a further 10 days.
Stone revealed that she had nearly died in a freak accident as a 14-year-old.
"I got caught in a clothesline and had my neck cut to a sixteenth of an inch from my jugular vein," she recalled.
She also suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2001 and travelled a long road to recovery after doctors gave her "a five per cent chance of surviving".
"When I came home after the stroke, I could barely walk," she told Radio Times in 2018.
"My hip was unstable. I couldn't see out of my left eye and I couldn't hear out of my left ear. I couldn't write my name for almost three years. I couldn't get my arm to listen to my mind, so I had to learn to read and write again. I had to learn to speak again. It took years for the feeling to come back to my left leg, but it finally came back."
