Sharon Stone has had her fair share of ups and downs, even in her early days in Hollywood— from her sudden fame following Basic Instinct to losing custody of her eldest son, Roan Joseph Bronstein due to her controversial scene in the film.

But despite all that publicity, the actress recently revealed that no one would dress her for her first Oscars back in 1992. Here's the real story behind that.

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Sharon Stone Struggled With Fame After Basic Instinct

In an interview with USA Today, Stone said that a friend had to teach her the "new rules" of fame after Basic Instinct. "I was on my knees, dry heaving. And he took me to his room, sat me on the side of the tub, ran some cold water, told me to put my feet in there and gave me a Valium," she said of the emotional moment following the film's Cannes premiere.

"He handled a lot of big stars in his time and he was like, 'Look, from now on, life is going to change. You need Sharon-Stone-the-movie-star clothes, and then you need your clothes.'"

She continued: "You need to start separating out your life so that you have a sane existence. He actually told me to pay for anything under a hundred dollars with a check because people won't cash the check. They'll want your autograph. Which is something I didn't do. But it was sound advice."

What Sharon Stone feels about her Basic Instinct fame
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After her breakout role as Catherine Tramell — for which she was paid a mere $500,000 — Stone said that she still didn't get paid enough in her next projects. "After Basic Instinct, no one wanted to pay me," she told The Guardian in 2015. "I remember sitting in my kitchen with my manager and just crying and saying: 'I'm not going to work until I get paid.' I still got paid so much less than any men."

Meanwhile, her co-star, Michael Douglas made $14 million in the movie. "Michael could afford the car, driver, bodyguard," the A Golden Boy star said of the pay gap. "I had to move because people were on my roof and breaking my door down. I couldn’t afford the things I needed because of the sudden fame I had."

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Why No One Would Dress Sharon Stone For Her First Oscars

When Stone was invited to the Oscars in 1992, Basic Instinct hadn't come out yet. It was that brief period between the film and her colossal fame. As a result, she had to style herself for the red carpet.

"When I first got invited to [present at] the Oscars right before Basic Instinct, the movie hadn't come out, so no one would lend me a dress," she told the iHeart podcast, Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi.

"All these people in their $40,000 or $50,000 dresses and I went and bought a Betsey Johnson polyester jumpsuit, because that was the best I could do," she continued, adding that she also did her own makeup for the event.

"I'm doing my own hair and makeup and I was just like, 'Wow, this is awful. Like, how am I going to do this, right?'" she recalled, noting that the situation had all flipped when Anthony Hopkins recognized her.

"But then I got there and I was like in the fourth or fifth row back which was really good," she shared. "And I was on the aisle, and I was seated right behind Anthony Hopkins, and when I walked by, he put his hands together and put them over his head like a champion and held them up to me when I passed him. I was like, 'Oh my God, he saw my movie."

30 years later, in March 2022, Stone opened up about being labeled a style icon, saying: "It means I have been lucky enough to be dressed by the greatest designers and learned about style from the masters."

During the podcast, the fashionista revealed that she had kept her outfits from Basic Instinct. "I couldn't believe how exciting it was and all of the incredible costumes that were being made just for me," she said. I put in my contract that I could keep the clothes."

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Did Basic Instinct Really Hurt Sharon Stone's Career?

Stone's popularity after Basic Instinct had undeniably taken a toll on her personal life. But according to San Francisco Chronicle's Robert Freud Bastin, it also boosted the career of The Quick and the Dead star. "When I was first at The Chronicle, I used to review B-movies and noticed that Sharon Stone, who was in a lot of them, was particularly good," he explained.

"But there's no reason to think that she would have gone from that right into a big career if she hadn't made Basic Instinct," he continued, acknowledging that "the '90s were a sorry time for women in Hollywood, so getting that showcase was a lucky thing — although, part of luck is preparation and she was ready for her moment."

Did Basic Instinct really hurt Sharon Stone's career?
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Bastin even discussed the key appeal of Stone's iconic role. "As for roles that have damaged careers, they tend to be ones that show a new way of looking at an established star, an unattractive way that at least seems to be revealing, whether it is or not. (See Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.)," he said. "But the public never seems to mind 'foul-mouthed and oversexed.' That's generally a winning combination."

Unfortunately, it wasn't the same case in Stone's personal life; it's what led her to lose custody of her eldest son, Roan in 2004. Back then, a judge had asked her "tiny little tiny boy 'do you know your mother makes sex movies?'" In the Table for Two podcast, the actress described it as "abuse by the system," noting that the controversial scene was just "maybe a 16th of a second of possible nudity."