I know it sounds completely random, but Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke were in Russia today for the same press conference, something about children or eye diseases or something. That’s not important! The important thing is: Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke! TOGETHER. Why did I never think of the two of them together? God, can you even imagine how insane and hilarious and crazy a couple they would make? It looks like Russian organizers were worried that someone would end up drunk and pregnant (Mickey), because they kept Sharon and Mickey away from each other. So, alas, no photos of them standing together. But luckily, I did find these old pics in the time capsule:

Those are just from last year! You know they were probably lovers. Long ago, and then again last year, probably. And it ended badly the second time. Either that or they flew to St. Petersburg together in a haze of Vicodin, champagne and rubber, and this press conference is just to announce their union. As for who I would rather… that’s so tough. I think I would prefer to go to bed with Mickey, but I’d rather go on a date with Sharon. Sharon would be fun to have dinner with – if the bitch didn’t stab you. Of course, you’re probably going to get stabbed if you go to bed with Mickey anyway.

Also: Sharon should stop with the red lipstick. It ages her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

When I first saw these photos of Sharon Stone at last night’s AIDS charity gala, I was slightly overcome. Is Sharon Stone a crazy bitch? Sure. Is she not that talented as an actress? Sure. But this woman can wear the hell out of a black leather turtleneck dress, can’t she? The body looks great, and the face is rather amazing too. What a great red carpet appearance for her. Personally, I think Sharon is “dressing her age” while still looking younger and sexier than most women her age. She doesn’t look desperate, I think. She’s covered up yet she’s still showing off her figure. She could give Demi Moore some pointers.

So, here’s the question: Should Sharon Stone be style role model for over-40 women? Or is she a style role model for women of all ages? Is she timeless?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Sharon Stone is the June cover girl for More Magazine. In the interview (which is online, here), Sharon talks about getting lip injections and how she’s “shameless” et cetera. Of course, she’s also talking about how her love life is like the Mojave, so maybe she’s not that shameless. Regarding the lip injections, I always wonder if Sharon has had any major work done – she’s one of those women (like Catherine Zeta-Jones) where I can’t tell if they’ve had no major work or just had really amazing work that looks natural. Here’s more from Sharon’s interview:

Sharon Stone is shameless. The actress considers it a skill to have no shame. She thinks everyone should try it, though she cautions that if you’re female, shamelessness can cost you. Her refusal to feel guilty, she says, has gotten her labeled difficult, or worse.

“I’m like a Prohibition-era flapper. I’m like a juke-joint hussy,” Stone says over lunch at an Italian restaurant near Beverly Hills. But better to be called names than to be pressured into not being herself. Feeling ashamed, she says, “is not an organic state of being, so shamelessness is closer to godliness. You have to put shame down.”

The actress, who broke through as the shamelessly sexual villain in Basic Instinct and most recently did a four-episode guest stint on Law & Order: SVU, says, “I’m detached from my celebrity; I don’t need to be ‘it’ anymore.” She’s been thinking a lot lately about getting older, about womanhood and about lost love. What she’s concluded may surprise you.

“Life and love is like the ocean,” she says between bites of a Caesar salad. At 52, she is stunning up close—blue eyed, lithe and radiant in ripped jeans, a white T-shirt sans bra and a linen vest. “Sometimes the tide is in and sometimes the tide is out, and sometimes it’s like the frigging Mojave.” Where’s the tide now? “For me? Mojave! Fortunately, I like the desert. I’m a desert flower.”

Of course, a dry spell in Stone’s life can sound like a torrential downpour to the rest of us. For example, she acknowledges that since her divorce from former San Francisco newspaper editor Phil Bronstein six years ago, “I really get pursued by men in their twenties, like, a lot.” Her theory on why? “They probably know there’s food in the fridge and that somebody’s going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.”

Her divorce, she tells writer Amy Wallace, hit her harder than she has revealed up till now, starting with insecurity about her looks. Loneliness and self doubt caused her to get something—she doesn’t recall what—injected into her lips. “Nobody loves me. I’m 103. My life would be better if I had better lips,” she says, recounting the thoughts that went through her head pre-injection. Just one thought occurred to her afterward: “What the hell?” Her lips were so overplump, gloss wouldn’t stay put; what’s more, her lips no longer matched. She looked “like a trout,” she says. She adds that she’s shunned plastic surgery ever since.

As for her feelings about Bronstein, Stone, who has previously had a sort of tough-as-nails demeanor when discussing their split, says now that she married him “with every best intention for every good and wonderful thing.” And when the marriage was over, it crushed her. “It takes a long, long time to come to the point where you can actually say that you got married because you were in love with the person. And it makes me cry,” she says, dabbing at her eyes. It’s easier to be angry. But to let that go and “to admit your own lovingness was, for me, a harder step. Not to be embarrassed or ashamed that I could love somebody who didn’t love me. And that can be OK.”

[From More Magazine]

Do you buy that Sharon has 20-something dudes coming up to her? Perhaps. But – and I’m seriously not trying to be rude and mean, I swear – I think if guys in their 20s come up to her or proposition her, it’s for the kitsch value of it. Like, those are the guys who had their first masturbatory celebrity fantasy to Sharon in Basic Instinct. Of course, maybe she’s a lot of fun and really cool to be around and there really are 20-something dudes just salivating to hit that. But I doubt it, on all counts.

Pics of Sharon, courtesy of More online.

Did anyone get drunk and watch Sharon Stone’s first episode as the new Assistant District Attorney for Law & Order: SVU last night? Am I the only one raising my hand? Well, I watched it so you don’t have to. You should be happy, because Sharon SUCKED. I mean, her horrible acting was so epic, I sobered up. Not even an appearance by Sam “Jack McCoy 4 Eva” Watterson could save this bitch.

Now, before I get too heavily into bashing Sharon, let me just say that my once beloved SVU is just terrible now. It was going downhill last season, but this season The Awful just keeps coming. You know it was bad when I was like, “I’ll pay Christopher Meloni $100 to shoot Christine Lahti in the face.” The stories have been terrible, and all too often the have nothing to do with “special victims”. I guess it’s come to the point where, yeah, how many serial rapists can there be in New York? But still, I know there’s new material to be found, somebody’s just sleeping on the job.

As for Sharon’s premiere appearance… it was just wrong. Her delivery was wrong, her haughty flirtation with Meloni was wrong, her attitude was weird, and Sharon just seemed like she was two seconds behind everyone. Was she drunk? Oh, and her face: it’s been worked on. Entertainment Weekly had complaints too:

Sharon Stone began her four-episode guest-star turn on Law & Order: SVU in an episode filled with such clunky dialogue and improbable details that by the end, she seemed like a “special victim” herself.

Stone played ADA Jo Marlowe, and how unlikely is it that, with all the time Christopher Meloni’s Stabler and Mariska Hargitay’s Benson have spent together, he never mentioned that his old partner Jo wasn’t a “Joe”? Looking great even when doffing her heels for rubbery firefighter boots while investigating a possible arson blaze, Stone had to revive her best hard-boiled Catherine Tramell tone to sell hokey lines such as, “Let’s cut Pizza face loose” and “Let’s light this baby up.”

If the guest star was failed by the script, Meloni and Hargitay must be wearily used to it by now; SVU has long been the most mawkish and overwrought Law & Order franchise. This week’s case was about two children dead in an apartment fire that investigators think was set by an acne-ridden pyromaniac — no, a desperate dad; no, a… aw, who cared? Stabler and Benson cared, of course: They continue to embody righteous indignation; no crime is too small to evade their angry glares and pious speeches when cuffing a perp.

L&O: SVU loves to find new kinkiness to exploit, and last night hit upon “pyrophelia” — a real condition in which the sinner gets off on fire (unfortunately literally, as we were shown tape of the jerk pleasuring himself while gazing at the apartment conflagration).

The interrogation scenes would have been almost laughable in a sitcom. In one, “Pizza Face” went into a swoony erotic trance as soon as Stabler lit a match in front of him. In another, Stabler wiped away sympathetic tears with his handerkerchief to build trust with the dead kids’ father, only to reveal to Stone and Hargitay that he’d used a wily trick I thought only worked in Bugs Bunny cartoons: He’d hidden a Bermuda onion in his hanky!

Even a stern cameo by Sam Waterston (yay, a new episode of the superior Law & Order next Monday!) or a nice brief turn by Brad Dourif as an arson expert couldn’t save the show for Stone’s debut. She got to have nice, big, table-turning scene in the final courtroom showdown, but it was too little, too late.

[From EW]

Yes, Brad Dourif – one of the greatest weirdo character actors working today – was the only good part. He specializes in playing freaks, and his hyperactive arson specialist was a great character for him. Note to producers: Cast Dourif as the ADA next, hm?

About halfway through the episode, I really began to wonder – was Sharon always this terrible an actress? Thoughts?

I was prepared to criticize Sharon Stone’s outfit for her appearance at the screening of Behind the Burly Q last night. But I actually like, sort of. It’s age appropriate, with a twist. The twist being the rather awesome fishnet tights and the leather gloves. Yes, her face looks… worked on, but it’s not like Demi Moore’s, you know? It’s not like Sharon has an entirely new, smooth, line-less face. Sharon has lines. And they look good and natural, and yet… still her face looks “fresh”. Anyway, I think it was a good appearance.

In additional Sharon news, you know how she always shows up at the Cannes Film Festival to hostess the big annual AmFar gala? She’s been hostessing the thing for years, but Roger Friedman got the scoop that Sharon wasn’t even invited to Cannes this year! This really is a scandal:

Here’s a shocker: after raising $290 million over the last several years as cheerleader extraordinaire, Sharon Stone will not be at this year’s AmFar Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes.

Sharon confirmed for me last night that AmFar simply didn’t invite her this year. “So I took a movie,” she said. “I had to get back to my career anyway.”

Stone will be in Thailand filming “The Burma Conspiracy” when the AmFar dinner occurs on May 20th at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, France. Prior to this she hasn’t missed a Cinema Against AIDS dinner since it began. Her participation in the live auction is credited for raising $290 million.

“The show,” as she calls it, has been the main attraction for rich Europeans and Arabs who traveled to Cannes just to meet Stone and see her cajole millions out of celebrities and billionaires.

But two years ago, Stone’s “show” was considered over the top and some members of the AmFar board complained about it. Last year, Stone’s participation was limited to speaking just about the late Natasha Richardson. Professional auctioneer Jamie Niven took her place, although Stone’s presence was still the draw.

[From Hollywood News]

Yes, I remember hearing various stories about Sharon’s antics at Cannes, and how she would go the extra mile to get money out of people, all the while keeping all of the attention on her, of course. Could it be that AmFar was just tired of Sharon’s crazy diva behavior, even if it raised money for them? I don’t know.

Lastly, Entertainment Weekly had a little preview of Sharon’s upcoming 4-episode arc on Law & Order: SVU. Her character used to a be a cop, and she used to be Stabler’s partner. What the…?

Sharon Stone joins Law & Order: SVU on April 28 as assistant district attorney Jo Marlowe, a former cop who shares a history with Stabler. “She trained him when he was a rookie,” explains executive producer Neal Baer. “He finds out she’s the new ADA and goes, ‘Oh, man.’” In addition to possessing a wry sense of humor, Stone’s prosecutor — who will stick around for four episodes — has a knack for saying “the right wrong things,” notes Baer. “She asks Benson if she’s ever slept with Stabler. Benson’s like, ‘What? He’s married.’ Her response is, ‘Yeah…so?’”

[From EW]

Ugh. SVU has jumped the shark. Why are they doing this revolving door of ADAs? All of them suck too. Realistically, wouldn’t it be relatively easy to find some crusading women’s and children’s rights lawyer who wanted to be the SVU prosecutor? I miss that ADA from last year, the pretty blonde who was trying to make rape a hate crime.

Sharon Stone in New York on April 19, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Sharon Stone is currently filming her guest part on Law & Order: The Last Gasp of a Once Great Cop Shop. I mean, SVU. Some sources claim that Stone is going to be on SVU for one episode, but I’m pretty sure she’s got a multi-episode arc at least. This week we finally saw ADA Cabot (Stephanie March) leave the unit for greener pastures (greener pastures = prosecutor for some UN commission on international rape and sexual abuse). Since ADA Novak (Diane Neal) is nowhere to be seen (she was disbarred, right?), I guess Sharon Stone is going to be playing the unit’s latest ADA. Ah, yes, I see it now. Stone is playing a former cop-turned-lawyer for a four-episode arc.

I hate to say it, but Stone might not be a bad fit. But you can never tell with some of these guest stars. I was a big fan of Christine Lahti until her absolutely disastrous, vodka-soaked, faux-feminist character arc on SVU last fall. But then, you wouldn’t have thought Naveen Andrews as a smooth-operating, trust-fund-having, financial-crimes-unit cop would work out, but Naveen was spectacular, and I’m hoping he gets brought back. Kathy Griffin was wonderful as a lesbian-rights activist, but Mischa Barton (as an abused hooker) was horrible, just mind-numbingly terrible. So will Stone be a Lahti or a Naveen? I have no idea.

By the way, in additional SVU news, did we mention that Christopher Meloni is leaving after next season? UGH. I hate that. I love his character so much, and how much Det. Stabler has grown throughout the series. Oh, and Ann-Margret and Jaclyn Smith are going to be guesting too. Hmm… but what about Naveen?!? Maybe Naveen will come on to replace Meloni?!? Please, God.

Stone, Hargitay & Meloni on the NY set of SVU on March 18, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.

Last week, parts of Sharon Stone’s cover interview with the Tatler came out, and people got pissed. I was one of them. In the course of the interview, Sharon Stone was talking about aging in Hollywood, and she sort of went off on a tangent about why Meryl Streep has such a flourishing career. Stone said: “I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills – that looks like me in real life.’ Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

While many of you pointed out that perhaps this should be interpreted as Stone’s odd way of complimenting Meryl, I still think it’s a really f-cked-up, bitchy, snide insult. Stone is basically “complimenting” Meryl on looking totally average (in Stone’s mind), while the unspoken, nasty, passive-aggressive statement is really, in Stone’s mind, that she doesn’t get the same work as Meryl because she (Stone) is such a ravishing beauty, while Meryl isn’t. Meryl is “relatable” because she’s not beautiful, and women can’t “relate” to Sharon because she’s so gorgeous. That’s how I interpreted her comments initially, and I stand by it. I still think it was a horrible thing to say about Meryl Streep.

Anyway, Sharon gave an interview to PopEater where she’s trying to half-heartedly eat sh-t for how we “took” her comments. Here’s Stone’s statement to PopEater:

Sharon Stone is fighting back against a magazine quote in which the actress seemed to bash Meryl Streep, as Stone tells PopEater exclusively that the publication took her quote completely out of context. “It is not ok with me for someone to take a statement I made with good-natured intent and to try and make it in to something politically incorrect,” Stone tells PopEater.

The quote in UK’s Tattler Magazine (via Huffington Post), had Stone saying: “I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to … Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Stone refutes how that quote is being portrayed, telling PopEater: “My love and support for what she [Streep] represents for women right now is extraordinarily important.”

Her publicist agrees, adding that “the full context of what Sharon said about Meryl Streep in her interview with Tattler Magazine was meant as a compliment. Sharon greatly admires Meryl as a person, an actress, and as a friend.”

The ‘Basic Instinct’ and ‘Casino’ actress also allegedly says in the Tattler interview: “I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills – that looks like me in real life.’”

Also in the Tattler interview, Stone denies having any plastic surgery done, but then is quoted saying she did have work done once. “I have had zero, nothing done to myself: no lifting, no Botox, no injectables,” she said. “I did try something once and I saw myself in a movie and didn’t like the way I looked. I thought I looked like I had a giant balloon head, and I felt it wasn’t for me.

[From PopEater]

So, basically, it’s all our fault for thinking Sharon Stone is a bitch. And not only is it our fault, Sharon wants us to know that “it’s not okay” for us to read her comments and think she’s a bitch. We were supposed to intuitively know that Sharon, in fact, meant the exact opposite of what she was recorded saying. Here’s what Sharon could have said: “I was trying to give Meryl a compliment, but it came out wrong and for that, I apologize. I love and worship her. She is a million times the actress I could ever dream of being, and she‘s gorgeous.” But no! Sharon thinks we’re being too “politically correct” while hiding behind another bullsh-t statement about Streep’s career representing “women’s rights.” She never denied saying or thinking that Meryl “looks like an unmade bed” and that’s why this non-denial denial is full of sh-t. Just like Sharon.

Tatler Magazine cover courtesy of Celebrity Candid.

Damn, I am ready to smack Sharon Stone silly. Ordinarily, I enjoy Sharon in a “she’s so f-cking crazy, she makes writing fun” sort of way. But this new interview with Sharon has got me steamed. Okay, Sharon sat down with Tatler, a British monthly magazine much like People Magazine (this interview is via The Telegraph). Sharon talks a lot about how she’s “had zero” done to her face: “no lifting, no Botox, no injectables.” Which in and of itself is ridiculous enough. Granted, Sharon doesn’t look like a wax version of herself like some women (cough Nicole Kidman), and she doesn’t have an entirely new face like some women (cough Meg Ryan), but she’s had something tweaked over the past few years. Sure, it looks good. But don’t pull a Demi “I’m So Natural” Moore.

But what really got me steamed was this comment about Meryl Streep. Sharon says: “I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.” Um… no, bitch. Meryl does not look like an unmade bed. She looks unbelievably gorgeous and breathtakingly sexy, for any age. I saw It’s Complicated two weekends ago, and trust me, Meryl is f-cking beautiful.

Sharon Stone has described fellow Hollywood actress Meryl Streep as looking “like an unmade bed”.

In what could be mistaken for a backhanded compliment, the Basic Instinct star said women can relate to Streep because she looks so ordinary.

“I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to,” Stone told Tatler magazine. “I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills – that looks like me in real life.’ Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Streep, 60, is currently on the big screen in the romantic comedy It’s Complicated, and is tipped to pick up her 14th Oscar nomination next month for Julie & Julia. Stone, 51, insisted that her own glamorous good looks are entirely natural, and that she looks fantastic at 51 thanks to exercise and good genes. She is currently the face of Dior’s anti-ageing skincare range.

“I have had zero, nothing done to myself: no lifting, no Botox, no injectables,” she said. “I did try something once and I saw myself in a movie and didn’t like the way I looked. I thought I looked like I had a giant balloon head, and I felt it wasn’t for me. I think everyone here [in LA] looks like everyone else. It’s goldfish number one, two and three, and I didn’t want to be goldfish number four. I’m not saying I might not do a little something later on but it’s just not me now.”

Instead, she prefers to maintain her looks “the old-fashioned way – to go to the gym and take care of your internal life. It might take more effort but you get something nicer to give back to the world.”

She went on: “I’m not one of those ladies who won’t say their age. I’m very grateful for it. We get different faces as we go through our lives. If you try to hang on to the face you had when you were younger, you end up desperate. I’m happy with the way I am now, with this 51-year-old person.”

Stone is a UK size 6-8 but said she never diets. “I have to watch not getting too skinny. I’m a mover. I’m not one of those people who can survive on salad. I love a big steak dinner and I’m obsessed with finding the perfect hamburger.”

The star of Casino and Catwoman has a track record of slightly tactless utterances.

In 2008, she suggested that the Chinese earthquake that claimed tens of thousands of lives was “karma” for China’s treatment of Tibet. “They are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine,” she said.

[From The Telegraph]

It’s like Sharon Stone is pulling a Sienna Miller, like “I’m so fabulous I barely have to work out, but I should, I need too, but meanwhile I look amazing, right?” Ugh. And that’s all I want to say about Sharon. Bitch.

But, if you’d like to hear more about how Meryl is fabulous, The Telegraph also has a great article on how Meryl is one of the sexiest pieces working in Hollywood today. And I mean “sexiest pieces” in a respectful way. The author of the piece goes on and on about Meryl’s “grace, intelligence, wit and exuberance” and her “glow…[there is] a sensuality and a radiance about Streep these days. Put simply, she’s looking great.” Oh this guy really has a crush on her too, listen to this: “I’ve met her several times over the years, and have always been struck by her humour. She is someone who, if she finds something amusing, lets you know it: she’ll throw her head back, give a full-throated laugh, and often slap her thigh for good measure.” See? Everyone has a crush on Meryl. Except for Sharon. Who is a bitch.

Sharon Stone on December 30, 2009 in Hollywood. Credit: Fame. Sharon at the Beverly Hills ‘Crazy Heart’ premiere on December, credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures. Promotional images of Meryl Streep in ‘It‘s Complicated’ courtesy of WENN.

Sharon Stone is killing me! I love this picture so, so much. I love the fug, ridiculous dress, I love that Sharon is mid-cackle in the photo, I love that she accessorized with a leather jacket and a top hat. This bitch is so crazy, this outfit barely scratches the damn surface. Oops… correction: the fug, sheer bottom is actually a pair of pants, not a skirt. Who the fug makes this junk?

Apparently, the dress is Dior Haute Couture – which, you know, sucks for Dior. You want Crazy McCackle to show off your designs? Uh, no. Sharon wore this get-up to the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s “An Enduring Vision” benefit in New York City on Monday night. On the red carpet, there is picture after picture of Sharon with the leather jacket covering her up. There’s only one picture of this – which I guess means that Sharon knew the outfit was fug, and she just decided to laugh about it.

Okay, now I’ll be nice to Crazy Pants. Sharon was being honored at the event for her tireless work with HIV/AIDS charities. She really does believe in her AIDS work, and I applaud her for it. It’s not some flash in the pan involvement – she’s been deeply commited to a wide range of AIDS charities for decades now. She and President Bill Clinton were both honorees last night, and Elton John didn’t cancel his appearance at the event either, even though he’s been very sick with an E. coli infection. Anderson Cooper was the M.C. of the event, and you know he cracked a joke or two about the Crazy Pants.

Sharon Stone, 51, has revealed the heartbreaking personal story that she suffered two miscarriages, each when she was five months along. (Edit: reading this again, I think she’s saying that she lost twins in the late fifth month, but it’s hard to tell.) That must have been terrible and my heart goes out to Stone. The way she revealed this information is kind of questionable, though. She brought it up to explain her diss of Chinese earthquake victims last year. In case you’ve forgotten Stone’s infamous remarks, she was asked what she thought about the terrible earthquakes in China and went on this tirade about how the Chinese were mistreating the Tibetans and the Dalia Lama who she called “a good friend of mine.” She said “then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?” Stone eventually issued an apology, but the damage was done and she suffered some rightful backlash afterwards.

When asked why she said those insensitive things, Sharon explained that she was crazy – which sounds about right – and that she was in such grief over the tragedy of her loss that she was “really speaking as a heartbroken mother.” Right, because a heartbroken mother would somehow think their innocent child was the victim of karma. Maybe Stone eventually realized the gravity of the situation in China and was able to relate to all the mothers who lost their children, but she sure wasn’t drawing any parallels to her own life when she said it was “karma.”

Sharon Stone has said that her controversial comments about the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China were a result of her hurt after suffering two miscarriages.

The actress apologised twice after initially suggesting that the natural disaster could be “karma” for the country’s treatment of Tibet.

Stone told Prestige: “I was in some kind of crazyville. The horrific loss of those people’s children caused me tremendous grief. I was relating to this earthquake like some kind of crazy mother.

“In that moment, I was so grief-stricken, and I was really relating to their grief. I had lost children myself. All of that was really heavy upon me. I was really speaking as a heartbroken mother.”

She added: “I had two pregnancies that I lost in the late fifth month. And this is so awful because I had to go have surgery when my children died. This is a trauma that you just cannot bear.”

[From DigitalSpy.co.uk]

All right, Sharon, you’ve had some terrible tragedies in your life and maybe you’ll think next time before you shoot your mouth off. Last year we donated to Chinese earthquake relief as a direct result of Sharon’s comments, mostly because I started looking into how heartbreaking the situation was and couldn’t bear not to do anything about it. If anything, Stone helped bring awareness to the situation by inspiring outrage in so many of us. Over 68,000 people were confirmed dead as a result of the Sichuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, with over 18,000 missing and over 370,000 injured. No one can ever convince me that mass tragedies are karma, and I’ll always hate that book “The Secret” for making that obnoxious claim. (I listened to the audiobook and was astounded that someone could even write that people who died in mass tragedies were resonating at a negative level or whatever the hell the author claimed, nonetheless have the audacity to repeat it.)

Stone may say some careless things and wear fur whenever she can, but she’s not a bad person. She supports several charities including gay rights and AIDs research organizations and has adopted three boys, Roan, 8, Laird, 4, and Quinn, 3.

Sharon is shown at an event on 9/24/09 (credit: WENN.com) and out with two of her boys at a bike shop on 10/4/09. (credit: Fame)