Sharon Stone on being struck by lightning and cheating death three times

Sharon Stone must feel like the luckiest woman in the world after revealing she's cheated death a startling three times.

The Hollywood actress, famous for her role in Basic Instinct, has been struck by lightning, was almost throttled by a washing line in a freak accident at age 14, and suffered a stroke in 2001.

The 62-year-old says she's been through a lot of "crazy" things in her life.

She told The Sun : "I had my neck cut to a sixteenth of an inch from my jugular vein when I was 14 on a clothesline. I’ve been hit by lightning and, wow, that was really intense."

Sharon explained she was filling the iron with water and had her hand on the tap when the well outside was hit by lightning and the charge came up through the water.

She was thrown across the kitchen and against the refrigerator, but she says thankfully her mum "belted" her round the face to bring her to and she was fine.

Sharon added: "It’s like, 'How am I going to die next time?' Probably something super dramatic and nuts."

The actress said she's "tremendously lucky" to be alive after being given a 1% chance of surviving in 2001 when she had a massive stroke and suffered a haemorrhage.

"I felt like I had been shot in the head," she said. "I remember laying there thinking, 'I’m having a stroke'."

Sharon was rushed to hospital where she was in and out of a coma for a week.

She had to have a seven-hour operation, with surgeons inserting 22 platinum coils into her brain in order to stabilise the artery and stop the bleed.

While surgeons saved her life, Sharon still had to undergo years of gruelling therapy to make a full recovery.

She said: "My speech, my hearing, walking . . . everything. My whole life was wiped out. I thought I was dying for a long time, even after I came home."

During her seven years of recovery, Sharon's career was left hanging in the balance, she went through a divorce and a child custody battle.

She said she had to re-mortgage her home and lost everything she had.

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