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Sharon Stone has never been shy about speaking her mind, whether the topic is Hollywood’s double standards, her health scares, or her dating life.
This week, the Basic Instinct icon added another refreshingly candid chapter to that list, revealing on a new podcast appearance that she has been celibate for quite some time now, and explaining exactly why she has chosen that path.
The 68-year-old actress opened up during her appearance on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast, released Wednesday, September 9. What started as a conversation about her career quickly turned into one of the more honest discussions about dating, desire, and self-worth that Stone has offered in recent memory.
Rather than dodging the subject, she leaned all the way in, delivering the kind of unfiltered commentary longtime fans have come to expect from her.
Sharon Stone Opens Up About Her “No Luck At All” Phase
When Bialik asked Stone what kind of girlfriend she is, the actress didn’t hold back. “I’m a really good girlfriend, but I haven’t been a girlfriend in a long time,” Stone said on the podcast.
She went on to reflect on the range of relationships she’s had over the years, admitting her track record has been a mixed bag. “And I’ve been a girlfriend to bad boyfriends, and I’ve been a girlfriend to good boyfriends. I’ve had good luck and bad luck and no luck at all,” she explained.
That last category, she made clear, has defined her recent romantic history. “For quite a long time I’ve had no luck at all,” Stone continued, before getting to the headline-making admission itself. “I’ve been celibate for quite a while now because I’m just at the point where I really only want to be with someone that I care for.”
It’s a statement that lands less like a complaint and more like a boundary Stone has consciously set for herself. Rather than framing her celibacy as something imposed by circumstance, she presents it as a deliberate choice tied to what she wants out of a relationship at this stage of her life.
Why Her Priorities Have Shifted Now That Her Kids Are Grown
Stone also offered some insight into why her standards have evolved the way they have. Now that her three adopted sons, Roan, 26, Laird, 21, and Quinn, 20, are all grown adults, the actress said her focus has shifted away from anything casual.
She explained that she is now looking for “someone that’s my companion, not just someone to have sex with,” a sentiment that suggests her definition of an ideal partner has matured alongside her family.
Stone adopted Roan in 2000 during her marriage to journalist Phil Bronstein, which lasted from 1998 to 2004. After their split, she adopted Laird in 2005 and Quinn in 2006 as a single parent.
She was also previously married to producer Michael Greenburg from 1984 to 1990, and was engaged twice more in the 1990s, to producer William J. Macdonald and actor Bob Wagner, though neither engagement made it to the altar.
Given that history, it’s not surprising that when Bialik asked whether Stone believed she had already experienced the great love of her life, the actress gave an honest rather than romanticized answer.
“I have had loves in my life, but I don’t think I’ve had the great love of my life, no,” Stone said. It’s a striking admission from someone who has been linked to plenty of high-profile relationships over the decades, and it underscores just how selective she says she has become about who gets close to her now.
From Bad Dates To Psychic Predictions, Stone Doesn’t Sugarcoat Her Dating Life
If anyone wonders why Stone might be choosing quality over quantity these days, she has stories to back it up. The actress has previously been candid about just how rough modern dating can get, including one particularly memorable disaster involving a man she met through a dating app.
Stone has said she arranged to meet him at a swanky hotel in Bel-Air, only to quickly realize the situation wasn’t what she expected. She later described the encounter bluntly, saying the man was “a heroin addict who’s clearly 20,000 injections later than the picture he sent me.”
That kind of experience seems to have reinforced Stone’s skepticism about casual hookup culture more broadly. She has spoken before about her frustration with how easy it is to meet people for purely physical encounters, once remarking that finding a real connection is a different challenge altogether than finding someone for a fling.
Her philosophy, as she has described it in past interviews, boils down to wanting substance over convenience, even if that means going through long stretches without dating anyone seriously.
Interestingly, Stone hasn’t fully written off the idea of finding love again, even if she isn’t rushing the process.
During her Breakdown appearance, she brought up a prediction she received from a psychic at just 23 years old, who told her she wouldn’t meet her true partner until she was much older, close to 70.
Stone said a second psychic later echoed the same forecast, which seems to have given her a strange sense of peace about her love-life timeline rather than anxiety. If the prediction holds any truth, Stone may not have much longer to wait.
Fans of Stone will likely recognize this latest interview as part of a broader pattern of the actress refusing to perform false positivity about her personal life just to make others comfortable.
She has been similarly blunt in recent years about aging in Hollywood, about surviving a near-fatal brain hemorrhage in 2001 that temporarily left her unable to read, and about pushing back on what she views as unfair judgment of women in the industry.
Choosing to speak openly about celibacy, at a moment when she could easily have kept the topic private, fits squarely within that same pattern of transparency.
Ultimately, Stone’s comments read less like a confession and more like a woman comfortable enough in her own life to explain her choices without apology.
She isn’t chasing a relationship just to have one, and she isn’t pretending her dating life has been a smooth ride either.
Instead, she’s offering a version of honesty that feels increasingly rare in celebrity interviews, one that doesn’t try to spin loneliness into something glamorous or hide frustration behind a polished quote.
Whether or not that long-predicted great love shows up on schedule, Sharon Stone seems entirely at peace with waiting for someone worth breaking the streak for.
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