If you’re having a tough time on dating apps, you’re definitely not alone as even Sharon Stone has struggled while swiping.
The Basic Instinct actress, 65, , and engaged a further two times.
She has remained private about her love life since her from her second husband, Phil Bronstein, was finalized in 2004, but declared that she’s officially ready to fall in love this year.
Despite being one of the biggest names in the industry, her hunt for as many would expect – she found that one potential match was a convicted felon, and a heroin addict whose pictures looked very different.
Yes, even Sharon Stone gets catfished.
‘A heroin addict who’s clearly 20,000 heroin injections later than the picture he sent me,’ she told of one date at the Bel-Air hotel. ‘I tell the waiter, “I’ll have a glass of water.” He had a cocktail: absinthe or something. And I said, “I’m sorry, I can’t stay.”’
In recent years, Sharon turned to apps in an attempt to find a meaningful relationship, and proudly uses her own identity instead of trying to hide behind someone else’s pictures or details.
Who could forget that wild moment in 2019 when she after it was reported as fake, and begged to be reinstated?
However, she insisted that she wants something solid instead of just casual sex, continuing: ‘I didn’t want to just go on Tinder and f**k somebody. Do you know what I mean? It’s so easy to f**k somebody. You don’t have to go on Tinder; you go to f**king Coffee Bean. It’s not hard.
‘It’s not that hard for anyone. Men f**k flashlights; a warm can of beans. Let’s get into reality. You go to the supermarket if you just want to have sex, but if you want to have a connection…’
After conceding that it has been ‘years’ since she was last in love, the Casino star’s experience hasn’t put her off, as she insisted that 2024 is the year she ‘wants to fall in love’.
While others may have a laundry list of things they want from a prospective partner, Sharon insisted that she isn’t on the hunt for anything in particular.
‘I don’t look for anything. I’ve never looked for anything. Because I don’t think that’s what happens,’ she added. ‘You’re standing somewhere, someone walks up and starts talking to you and you turn around and think, “What?” And the next thing you know, two years have gone by.
‘You don’t look for a list and then your list arrives. That’s what people do who don’t have relationships. So that they can comfort themselves with the fact that they don’t have a relationship and feel that they’re actively making an effort towards that happening in their lives.’
