Sharon Stone Recounts Calling Her Dad During ‘Threatening’ At-Home Encounter with Unnamed Man

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• Sharon Stone says her father threatened a man she was seeing over the phone during a dangerous encounter in her 20s

• “I tell you, my dad would have gotten on the plane with his gun, bought shells at the store, walked over,” the star says during the June 1 episode of The Person Who Believed Me podcast

• Despite their troubling history, Sharon says she and her father later became close after she confronted him as a teen

Sharon Stone is opening up about the time she called her father in the midst of a “threatening” at-home encounter with a man she was seeing, revealing what he did to bring the actress to safety.

During the June 1 episode of The Person Who Believed In Me podcast, hosted by CBS correspondent David Begnaud, the Basic Instinct star, 68, recounted the troubling altercation that occurred when she was in her 20s.

“This guy was threatening me. He said he was going to beat me up,” Sharon says of the man, who she did not identify by name. “He won’t leave… I can’t get out.”

The Casino actress says she fled to her bathroom and called her dad, Joseph Stone, because she didn’t know what to do. “My dad says, ‘Put the phone on speaker where he can hear me and open the goddamn door right now,’ ” she says. “I’m like, really? He’s like, ‘Open the goddamn door right now.’”

Sharon says she complied and opened the door. The man then asked who was on the phone and confronted her about calling her “daddy.”

“My dad says, ‘You know what that sound is?’ Guy says ‘no.’ [My dad] says, ‘I’m unlocking the gun cabinet. You know what this sound is? It’s two shells going in the shotgun,’” Sharon claims her father said. “’You know what the next sound you’re going to hear is? Me walking out the goddamn door to the airport. I’m going to come out there. I’m going to blow your a– all over the goddamn living room if I don’t hear the door shutting behind you right now.’ ”

The man then questioned if anything was really going to happen. “My dad says something to him like, ‘If I were you, I’d stop the talking and get to moving. I don’t hear that door.’”

Sharon says the man ended up leaving and afterwards, her dad suggested placing a chair under the door knob to keep him from getting inside again. “I tell you, my dad would have gotten on the plane with his gun, bought shells at the store, walked over,” she adds.

Despite Joseph’s phone call, Sharon claims she and her father had a troubled relationship when she was growing up. Elsewhere in the podcast episode, the Euphoria actress told Begnaud how she confronted him at age 14 about his behavior.

“My dad was quite a fantastic guy, super empathetic really. He was so sophisticated and tough and smart and cool,” Sharon told the podcast host. But, she insisted that he wasn’t always kind. “He was harder on me than he was my younger brother. Finally, I confronted him when I was 14, because he was a hitter,” she said.

The Oscar nominee recalled, “I remember specifically that he was yelling at me to come down those stairs, right? God damn now. And I came down the stairs like the Queen of France, like one step at a time, and then walked up to his face and said, ‘Why? Do you need to hit me some more to feel like a man? Is that what’s going on here? Because if you do, let’s get [on] with it. But I will never love you again. I’m done.’ “

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“He cried. And he never hit anybody again. It was over. And then we started talking. He would talk to me. He stopped hitting… and we became very close,” Sharon says.

Sharon Stone’s full interview on the The Person Who Believed In Me podcast is available to stream.

If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.

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