Did Sharon Stone Lose Custody of Her Child Because of the ‘Basic Instinct’ Scene? In Spain, the controversial sex criminal law is being changed again

American actress Sharon Stone feels prejudiced in the custody battle over her son fifteen years ago because of her role in ‘Basic Instinct’. The judge asked her son (“my tiny little boy”) at the time: “Do you know that your mother makes sex videos?”, the 64-year-old said in the podcast “Table for Two” on Tuesday.

People judged what kind of mother she was for making this movie, Stone said, calling it “kind of an abuse by the system.” In 2008, a court ruled that their then eight-year-old adopted son Roan should live with Stone’s ex-husband Phil Bronstein in San Francisco, rather than with Stone in Hollywood. The father could provide the boy, who was attending school in San Francisco at the time, with a “more stable” home, the statement said.

Stone played crime writer Catherine Tramell in the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct. A scene in the film in which Tramell lasciviously crosses his bare legs during an interrogation became iconic. Stone believes the role in the custody battle was her downfall. “People walk around with no clothes on mainstream TV these days and you saw maybe 1/16th of a second of possible nudity of me – and I lost custody of my child,” the actress said.

The situation broke her heart at the time and she had to be treated in hospital. Roan was born in May 2000. After separating from Bronstein, Stone had adopted two more boys.

(t-online, dpa)