Sharon Stone says speaking out about AIDS in the '90s destroyed her career
at amfAR… When I was approached in Cannes, I was like, ‘Can I take Elizabeth’s place?’” She recalled of being asked to fill in at the annual fundraiser for Taylor, amfAR’s chairwoman, in 1995. Her then-publicist Cindy Berger warned Stone against it: “She said, ‘If you do this, it will destroy your career.’ At the time you weren’t allowed to talk about AIDS. She got hives on her neck. I said, ‘I know, but I am going to do it, you’re gonna kill me.
After deciding to continue working with amfAR, Stone said, “I had no idea of the resistance, cruelty, hate and oppression that we would face. So, I put on a hazmat suit and I had them show me it [the virus] under the microscope. I thought I really need to see this thing that is making everyone go nuts.”She went on, “I stayed for 25 years until we had AIDS remedies being advertised on TV like we have aspirin. It did. I didn’t work for eight years.
A perusal of Stone’s IMDb shows that she did not disappear from Hollywood completely in the late ’90s and early 2000s, though the projects perhaps weren’t to the level of
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