Sharon Stone reflects on brain hemorrhage in emotional message to younger self

If Sharon Stone's learned anything from her rollercoaster life, it's that she's a fighter.

In an interview with the BBC published Wednesday, the 66-year-old actress got emotional when asked about the advice she would give to her younger self.

"You're going to make it,” a tearful Stone said as she detailed a brain hemorrhage she suffered 23 years ago. "You don't know it, but you're going to make it. I would have it tattooed on the inside of my eyelids."

She continued: "I would have wanted to have known it so many times. ... When I was on the floor and couldn't get an ambulance. When I went home (from hospital) and I read in People magazine that we wouldn't know for 30 days if I was going to live or die."

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An artery rupture resulting in a brain bleed and stroke left Stone with a 1% survival rate. The "Basic Instinct" star, then 43, said she had to relearn how to walk and talk following the health ordeal, telling the British outlet she's since overcome the issue. "It's been that long and it's OK… it's over… everybody made it to shore," she said.

Stone also opened up about her outspoken political views and got candid about President-elect Donald Trump's recent election win.

"I see the world a little bit differently than a lot of my country. That doesn't mean I'm not a patriot,' Stone said, adding that she will "respect the office of the president… because that is what a democracy does."

Stone stoked controversy last month while discussing the state of American politics, slamming a segment of Americans she characterized as "uneducated" and in their "extraordinary naïveté."

During an appearance at the Torino Film Festival in Italy, Stone − in an apparent reference to Trump − said "we have to stop and think about who we choose for government and if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself."

Stone also told the crowd that the U.S. is "in the midst of adolescence."

"Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything," Stone explained. "Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sharon Stone gets emotional while reflecting on brain hemorrhage