Sharon Stone is reflecting on the major stroke that derailed her career in Hollywood in a new interview with Variety.

“I was like the hottest movie star, you know?” she said of her life before her 2001 stroke. “It was like Miss Princess Diana and I were so famous — and she died and I had a stroke. And we were forgotten.”

Sharon took a two-year break from acting after the stroke, and it took seven years to fully recover. But by then, she believes, Hollywood had evolved.

“People treated me in a way that was brutally unkind,” she remembered. “From other women in my own business to the female judge who handled my custody case, I don’t think anyone grasps how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover… I had to remortgage my house. I lost everything I had. I lost my place in the business.”

Now, Sharon will be starring alongside Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Paulson in Ryan Murphy’s Ratched.

“If you have a really bad headache, you need to go to the hospital,” she added. “I didn’t get to the hospital until day three or four of my stroke. Most people die. I had a 1% chance of living by the time I got surgery — and they wouldn’t know for a month if I would live.”