Updated
Updated · BuzzFeed · Jun 4
Sharon Stone Says Husband Left Over Planned Double Mastectomy for 2 Breast Tumors
Updated
Updated · BuzzFeed · Jun 4

Sharon Stone Says Husband Left Over Planned Double Mastectomy for 2 Breast Tumors

3 articles · Updated · BuzzFeed · Jun 4

Summary

  • Stone said on a June 1 podcast that her husband was “furious” when doctors urged a bilateral mastectomy after finding two breast tumors in the early 2000s, and that the confrontation effectively ended the marriage.
  • One tumor was larger than her entire left breast, she said, and doctors warned the growths were likely cancerous; Stone decided to proceed because she was “not fucking around.”
  • Stone said her husband objected specifically to removing her breasts, prompting her doctor to defend the decision and Stone to tell him, “I make the decisions, not you.”
  • She ultimately did not undergo the double mastectomy because the tumors proved benign, but she described the episode as the point when the relationship was over.

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