Sharon Stone | A One Percent Chance
A machine-shop laborer in rural Pennsylvania took a day off swing shift and drove an hour to his daughter's elementary school, where the principal explained that Sharon was writing cursive during printing lessons, doing multiplication during addition, and teaching two other girls to do the same. Joe Stone thought about it, put her on his lap, asked if it was true, and turned back to the principal: here's what's going to happen. It's not going to stop. Then he took her out for ice cream.
He was also a hitter, until she came down the stairs at 14, walked up to his face, and asked whether he needed to hit her more to feel like a man — and told him that if so, she'd never love him again. He cried. He never hit anyone again. They became close after that, close enough that when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and given a 3% chance, he asked his Buddhist daughter — whose beliefs he'd been mocking for years — what he should do. She gave him a meditation. Ten days later the inoperable tumor had moved.
In this conversation with David Begnaud, Stone talks about the nine-day misdiagnosed brain hemorrhage that left her with a 1% chance of survival, and the vanilla milkshake her father made by hand and carried to the ICU in a mason jar packed in ice. About learning a decade later, from an X-ray, what had actually happened to her body that day — and why she chose not to press charges. About losing custody of her son to a man who edited the only newspaper in the town where judges get elected. About a mother who she thinks never said the words. And about doing a Playboy shoot on her own terms because it was the only way she could get Hollywood to see her as sexy enough for a part she was the thirteenth choice for.
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The Person Who Believed In Me is hosted by David Begnaud, founder and CEO of Do Good Crew and often called "America's storyteller." In each episode, David sits down with world-class guests to ask one simple question: Who believed in you before the world did? Big names. Honest stories. Relatable takeaways. Different paths — same question.
David is also a CBS News contributor and host of the weekly segment Beg Knows America, which airs every Monday morning.
Host: David Begnaud
Guest: Sharon Stone
Executive Producer: Olivier Delfosse
Booker: Sully Bloch
Director of Photography: Foster Parks
Live Production Technician: Joseph Gabay & Will Whitley (Statik Creative)
Director of Social: Mariah Maull
Theme Music: Slipstream
Post-Production: Longwave Digital
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A machine-shop laborer in rural Pennsylvania took a day off swing shift and drove an hour to his daughter's elementary school, where the principal explained that Sharon was writing cursive during printing lessons, doing multiplication during addition, and teaching two other girls to do the same. Joe Stone thought about it, put her on his lap, asked if it was true, and turned back to the principal: here's what's going to happen. It's not going to stop. Then he took her out for ice cream.
He was also a hitter, until she came down the stairs at 14, walked up to his face, and asked whether he needed to hit her more to feel like a man — and told him that if so, she'd never love him again. He cried. He never hit anyone again. They became close after that, close enough that when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and given a 3% chance, he asked his Buddhist daughter — whose beliefs he'd been mocking for years — what he should do. She gave him a meditation. Ten days later the inoperable tumor had moved.
In this conversation with David Begnaud, Stone talks about the nine-day misdiagnosed brain hemorrhage that left her with a 1% chance of survival, and the vanilla milkshake her father made by hand and carried to the ICU in a mason jar packed in ice. About learning a decade later, from an X-ray, what had actually happened to her body that day — and why she chose not to press charges. About losing custody of her son to a man who edited the only newspaper in the town where judges get elected. About a mother who she thinks never said the words. And about doing a Playboy shoot on her own terms because it was the only way she could get Hollywood to see her as sexy enough for a part she was the thirteenth choice for.
Get more stories that remind you the world is still good. Sign up for our free newsletter: https://www.thedogoodcrew.com
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST:
The Person Who Believed In Me is hosted by David Begnaud, founder and CEO of Do Good Crew and often called "America's storyteller." In each episode, David sits down with world-class guests to ask one simple question: Who believed in you before the world did? Big names. Honest stories. Relatable takeaways. Different paths — same question.
David is also a CBS News contributor and host of the weekly segment Beg Knows America, which airs every Monday morning.
Host: David Begnaud
Guest: Sharon Stone
Executive Producer: Olivier Delfosse
Booker: Sully Bloch
Director of Photography: Foster Parks
Live Production Technician: Joseph Gabay & Will Whitley (Statik Creative)
Director of Social: Mariah Maull
Theme Music: Slipstream
Post-Production: Longwave Digital
CONNECT WITH US:
The Person Who Believed In Me:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/believedpodcast
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