We were in these long wards and around 6 o'clock at night the Navy would leave and everyone would fire up and start smoking joints. 'I first smoked marijuana in the naval hospital,' he recalls. It started with a nasty accident when, as he was repairing machinery, his finger was ripped off and he spent time convalescing in hospital alongside survivors from the Vietnam War. That was when he encountered illegal drugs and his life started to take a very different path. Dad would come home from work exhausted and Mum's focus was on him.'Īt 18, Michael enlisted in the US Navy. Michael says: 'I'm not sure Mum was able to cope with us. Sharon has spoken in the past of feeling that her mother showed little affection. It wasn't just cash that was in short supply. In her teenage years, Sharon entered beauty pageants to earn extra money and was duly crowned Homecoming Queen, Tulip Festival Queen and Miss Crawford County. 'Grandma Lela's house was filled with hotel china from all over the place,' she says.
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Grandmother Lela – their father's mother – taught Sharon how to steal things from restaurant table tops. We built fences, mowed lawns and shovelled snow, anything to earn a dime.' 'I wanted anything, I had to buy it myself with money I earned. He was ten, she was barely three, 'but she wanted to be with me', he says. Michael used to bring Sharon along on his round, making her a tiny muslin bag which carried just one newspaper. Sharon and I had to earn our keep from a very young age.' 'We were all expected to work,' says Michael. Two more siblings followed – brother Patrick, now 55, and sister Kelly, now 50. 'The boundaries were really strict and the punishments were severe.' 'It was a bizarrely strict family,' says Sharon. The pressure on the Stone siblings to work hard and succeed in life was ingrained. New footage of Sharon Stone (pictured), 64, interviewing her brother and discussing their childhood offers a very personal insight into her career and their lives The other child in the picture is her older brother, Michael, who, despite good looks and charisma of his own, would eventually become a major drug-dealer, bringing misery and shame to those around him.ĭespite its far-reaching consequences, the story of their childhood and its chaotic aftermath are barely known, something too personal and too painful to be discussed in public. Yet, despite an unbreakable childhood bond, their lives would take very different paths.įor the young girl in these exclusive photographs is Sharon Stone, a superstar who rose to fame thanks to talent, beauty – and that notorious 'leg-crossing' scene in Basic Instinct.Ī woman who built a $50 million fortune from scratch, Sharon Stone is admired as much for her brains as her appearance, and at 64 remains in demand for film and television projects. In another snapshot, the siblings stand side by side in their Sunday best before heading off to church in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. It is a telling picture – a scrawny ten-year-old is showing off, flexing his muscles in mock defence of his baby sister.
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