Sharon Stone has opened up about a terrifying ordeal that saw her transported across her kitchen after she was struck by lightning.
The Academy Award winning actress, 62, claimed she had been ironing and was in the process of filling the domestic item with water from the well at her home, when the sudden force projected her.
Recalling the incident, the Hollywood star described how she had been in the kitchen at the time, when the “lightning came up through the water” propelling her into the refrigerator.
Sharon, who starred alongside A-lister Michael Douglas in the Box Office smash-hit Basic Instinct, confessed to the traumatising moment on the Films To Be Buried With podcast.
Sharon Stone lifts the lid on being struck by lightening (Image: Getty Images for GQ Germany)
Fortunately for the American actress, her mum was on hand to bring her back to consciousness with an awakening blow to the face.
Stone said she woke to her mother stood above her before she was rushed into a car and taken to the hospital.
When casting her mind back to the lightning attack, she described the situation as “really intense” and “so bright”.
She recalled the situation saying it was “so bright” as the lightening came up through the water in the well (Image: Corbis via Getty Images)
Speaking on the podcast she said: “I was hit by lightning. Wow, it’s really intense.
“I was filling the iron with water and I had one hand on the faucet and then got hit by lightning.
“The lighting came up through the water.
“I got picked up and thrown across the kitchen and I hit the refrigerator.”
After her mother had “belted” her across the face, she remembered how an electrocardiogram had showed an electric current within her body.
She added: “I was like, ‘woah’ and my mother was standing there, and just belted me across the face and brought me to.
“I was in such an altered state, I don’t know how to describe it, so bright, like wow.
“She threw me in the car and drove me to hospital and the EKG was showing just such electricity in my body. It was so crazy.”
Although coming into contact with a lightning bolt is rare, lightning happens to be one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the US.
According to statistics, less than one million people in America will be hit by lightning in any one year period.
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