Sharon Stone says she 'nearly died' after 'Basic Instinct' opened the door to Hollywood's dark side

Sharon Stone is opening up about how she survived Hollywood's dark side after starring in her hit movie "Basic Instinct."The actress became an international star after she played Catherine Tramell, a seductive crime novelist and alleged serial killer, in the 1992 erotic thriller.However, Stone recently shared that portraying Tramell took a psychological toll on her and drew dangerous people into her orbit.During an appearance on the "Mayim Bialik's Breakdown" podcast this week, Stone spoke about times when she's gotten too close to dark characters she's played and "scared the living s--- out of myself." Bialik asked her for an example, and she replied, "When I did ‘Basic Instinct,’ and I had to really look at darkness, and yet I was very still young and inexperienced."'TEACHER'S PET' STAR MAMIE VAN DOREN SAYS SHE FELT 'USED' AS YOUNG ACTRESS NAVIGATING HOLLYWOOD'S DARK SIDESharon Stone is opening up about experiencing the dark side of Hollywood after starring in "Basic Instinct." (AFP via Getty Images)She continued, "I didn't understand about holding the core, the core self, the golden self, and then wrapping the character around it with the power of the self driving it.

But just bringing it all in there and looking at it all, I opened some dark doors, right?""And some of those dark doors really scared the living s--- out of me, because I saw some real, real darkness," Stone remembered."And what happened then is that real dark people identified and came into my life thinking, 'Oh, you really are like me.

You're like me.'""And so darkness came into my life.Dark people, dark things, dangerous things came into my life because they thought, 'You're like me." And then people believed some of the dark things that were said about me because they thought, 'Oh, you couldn't do that if you weren't like that because you've mirrored me to me.'"LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSStone starred opposite Michael Douglas in the 1992 erotic thrille...