The end of a relationship is never easy, and it's even worse when there are children involved. For personalities in the public spotlight, the situation can be especially difficult, and when celebrities divorce it often ends in a court battle over the children. Some cases go on for years.
Sharon Stone previously lost her custody battle which she has now revealed was largely due to her famed role in 'Basic Instinct.' Appearing on the iHeart Podcast 'Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi,' the actress revealed that the 1992 film was brought into her custody battle over her son Roan, whom she'd adopted with her ex, Phil Bronstein.
"I lost custody of my child. When the judge asked my child—my tiny little, tiny boy, 'Do you know your mother makes sex movies?'" Stone recalled, before detailing the "kind of abuse by the system." She continued, "I was considered what kind of parent I was, because I made that movie. People are walking around with no clothes on at all on regular TV now and you saw maybe a sixteenth of a second of possible nudity of me and I lost custody of my child."
Stone was understandably a wreck after losing custody, and recalled, "I ended up in the Mayo Clinic with extra heartbeats in the upper and lower chambers of my heart ... It broke my heart. It literally broke my heart." She had previously opened up about her custody woes in her 2021 memoir, 'The Beauty of Living Twice' though she hadn't mentioned any specifics, only writing, "I was punished for changing the rules of how we see women," and recalling how she "had stopped eating and fallen apart and hadn’t even noticed," per ET.
Check out the gallery and see the celebrities who have already battled it out in court for custody of their children.