Sharon Stone has shared some insights into her experiences with online dating as part of her search for a meaningful relationship.
The Hollywood star, who was previously blocked from the dating app Bumble after her profile was suspected to be an imposter, has been married and divorced twice: first to television producer Michael Greenburg from 1984 to 1990, and then with newspaper editor Phil Bronstein. from 1998 to 2004.
In a new interview with The timeshe Basic instinct The actor talked about looking for love online, rather than in “real life.”
On a first date from an app, she said she met “a heroin addict who is clearly 20,000 heroin shots later than the photo he sent me” and left shortly after.
Stone also noted that he doesn't try to hide his identity on dating apps. “I'm still myself. It’s not like I can fake it,” she reasoned.
In 2019, after being blocked by Bumble, Stone expressed displeasure over her exclusion from X, then known as Twitter, and her account was reinstated.
Elsewhere in the interview, Stone noted that she wanted to use dating apps as a way to connect with someone on an emotional level, rather than finding purely physical connections.
“I didn't want to just go on Tinder and screw someone. Do you know what I mean?” she joked.
“It's very easy to screw someone. You don't need to access Tinder; you're going to hell [coffee shop chain] Coffee bean. Is not difficult.”
Since Stone was one of the definitive sex symbols of the '90s, many may assume that she would have an easier time than most finding a partner in a random scenario. However, according to her, “it is not that difficult for anyone.”
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Stone continued: “Men fuck with flashlights; a warm can of beans. Let's get into reality.
“You go to the supermarket if you just want to have sex, but if you want to have a connection…”
At the time of the interview, Stone was due to attend an Emmy party shortly afterward, but decided to cancel due to her social anxiety.
“It's too much,” he explained. “I have crippling social anxiety. I've always had it. I'm fantastic in a crisis. If you're bleeding out, I've got you covered.
“What I don't like is that 17 people talk all at the same time. I'd just like to go home. Enough of the chaos and the noise of nothingness.”
Sharon Stone at the 2023 Red Sea Film Festival
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In addition to having two relationships through apps during the Covid shutdowns, Stone found that the downtime also gave her the space to channel her creativity into visual art. She now exhibits his paintings in exhibitions around the world.
In December, she said The independent how she began the process of becoming a regular painter.
“We were going through Covid and I wasn't working as an actress,” she said.
“I was letting go of a lot of emotional things. It seemed like each painting was about an emotional experience; She was leaving it all on the canvas.”
You can read the complete interview here.
