An excerpt from actor Sharon Stone’s memoir ‘The Beauty of Living’ recalled what happened on the sets of the 1992 erotic thriller ‘ Basic Instinct’. The much-anticipated memoir, which will release in April, reveals the actor’s side of the story regarding what exactly happened during the shooting of the infamous explicit scene from the movie. She wrote that though the movie made her a star, it nearly broke her. The excerpt was released by Vanity Fair. 

Recalling the first time she watched her infamous interrogation scene in which her genitals were exposed, Stone wrote, “After we shot Basic Instinct, I got called in to see it. Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project,” she wrote. 

“That was how I saw my vagina shot for the first time, long after I’d been told, ‘We can’t see anything — I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on,'” she recalled.

She then got up, went to the projection booth, and slapped the director Paul Verhoeven across the face. She then called her lawyer who told her that “they could not release this film as it was.”

Stone also shared another incident wherein a male producer asked her to have sex with a co-star.

The male producer “explained to me why I should have sex with my co-star so that we could have onscreen chemistry. Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational! Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause. Then I realized that she also had to put up with him and pretend that he was in any way interesting,” she wrote. 

The memoir also details some of the sexual harassment the 63-year-old actor faced throughout her career.