Sharon Stone reveals she was attacked and only learned the truth a decade later

• Stone said she was knocked unconscious and only discovered the cause a decade later
• Medical X-rays at a Marina Del Rey clinic revealed her thoracic rib cage had been fractured
• A doctor told her the damage was clear evidence she had been the victim of a felony

Sharon Stone has opened up about a deeply troubling incident in which she was physically attacked — an assault she says she was entirely unaware of until medical scans revealed the truth some ten years after it occurred.

"I was hit from behind"

The 68-year-old actress described the harrowing experience during an appearance on The Person Who Believed In Me podcast, recounting what she recalled of the immediate aftermath.

"I don't know how much I can tell about this. I was hit from behind," Stone said.

"I didn't really know until 10 years later what had happened to me because I woke up. I was unconscious on the floor. The two couches were sideways. The coffee table was all over the place," she recalled.

"It was sort of upside down. Everything that had been on the coffee table was all over the floor and I didn't know how I got there," Stone added.

The medical discovery

It was only through a visit to a specialist clinic that the full picture began to emerge. Stone had sought treatment for persistent pain in her neck and shoulders before the extent of her injuries became clear.

"I went to a clinic because I was having a lot of problems with the back of my neck and my shoulders were so sore and I went to a neck and spine clinic in Marina Del Rey and they had given me propofol and they'd done a lot of X-rays of my front and back and all this stuff," she explained.

"They were going to do some kind of injections into what they thought was arthritis in my neck and shoulders, and they had done all these preliminary x-rays of my thoracic rib cage and my neck and my shoulders and my spine and the doctor came in and he's like, 'We're not going to be able to do this surgery,'" she revealed.

"I was like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' And he's like, 'Your thoracic rib cage is all fractured and scarred back together. It's clear that you were attacked and that what happened to you was a felony.'"

Stone declines to name her attacker

Podcast host and CBS correspondent David Begnaud asked Stone directly who had carried out the attack, but she declined to disclose the name in a public setting.

"I am not going to say publicly, but I am going to say that we did report and we did do everything," she responded.

Stone also addressed her decision not to pursue legal action, explaining that despite having had "the opportunity to press charges," she ultimately chose against it given the passage of time and her profile.

The Basic Instinct actress said that whilst she believed she had sufficient "circumstantial evidence to make a case," she also "did not want that to be my legacy" — and, given that a decade had elapsed, felt the circumstances no longer warranted proceeding.

When Begnaud asked whether she considered the assault to constitute domestic violence, Stone replied simply: "I'm not at liberty to say."