Sharon Stone grabs a $2M book deal, after publishers fought over memoir that is a ‘kiss and tell on steroids’ and will touch on her painful childhood, marriages, lovers and near-death experiences

After years of silence about her mostly secret life, film star and activist Sharon Stone has penned a memoir that publishing insiders exclusively told DailyMail.com ‘will be the most shocking and candid Hollywood insider story ever told.

‘Sharon’s going into surgical detail about everything from her painful childhood in Pennsylvania to her lovers, her health, her near-death experiences and more,’ they added.

The 62-year-old received a hefty advance of at least $2 million for her book The Beauty of Living Twice and is due in bookstores next March, a literary agent familiar with the deal disclosed to DailyMail.com.

New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf secured the deal, as the agent explained: ‘There was major interest from all the big publishers. This will be the blockbuster Hollywood tale of the decade if not the century.

‘Publishers for years have been pleading with Sharon to sit down and write her story, and now at the age of 62, she’s decided to go full steam ahead. It’ll definitely be a shocker.’

Another publishing source close to the project revealed Stone’s book will be a kiss and tell on steroids. Men and women in her star-studded life should already be ducking and covering!’

After years of silence about her mostly secret life, film star and activist Sharon Stone has penned a memoir that publishing insiders exclusively told DailyMail.com ‘will be the most shocking and candid Hollywood insider story ever told

According to the insider, Stone had been’ long-wary’ about writing a personal tell-all book because she feared it could negatively injure her career and her respected standing in the film industry.

But she decided that the time had come, especially since the #MeToo movement that had an explosive impact on the entertainment business.

The 62-year-old received a hefty advance of at least $2 million for her book The Beauty of Living Twice and will be released next March

‘Sharon’s always been a feminist, and with her age and with #MeToo she decided she shouldn’t wait any longer to tell her exclusive and explosive story,’ the source said.

The book’s timing also comes as her acting career has been somewhat on the wane, a well-placed Hollywood critic said.

Stone has appeared in a number of small, but well received films such as The Laundromat alongside Meryl Streep, a dark comedy that was featured last year in several film festivals before playing on Netflix.

Stone was described in one review of the film as ‘looking like a mid-western secretary trying just a little bit too hard — and wearing a wig that screams 1970s.’

The dig was a far cry from when 34-year-old Stone crossed her legs in her breakout role in the 1992’s sexy thriller Basic Instinct, in which she played a murder suspect opposite Michael Douglas.

Director Paul Verhoeven said at the time Stone didn’t have any inhibitions because she had just posed nude in Playboy, in what he said was an attempt to revive her career. 

But in 1995, she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe award for her role as Ginger, a scheming, self-absorbed druggy in Martin Scorsese’s mob epic Casino, starring opposite Robert DeNiro. 

The dig was a far cry from when 34-year-old Stone crossed her legs in her breakout role in the 1992’s sexy thriller Basic Instinct, in which she played a murder suspect opposite Michael Douglas

Both classics: The former model is best known for 1992’s Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas, left, and Martin Scorsese’s 1995 mob film Casino, right

Director Paul Verhoeven said at the time Stone didn’t have any inhibitions because she had just posed nude in Playboy, in what he said was an attempt to revive her career

According to her publisher: ‘Stone in these pages echoes the Stone who made headlines throughout her career; she is courageous, honest and outspoken, refusing to pull any punches when discussing aspects of the trauma and violence she endured as a child and how her chosen career as an actress echoed many of those assaults.’

The publisher noted that Stone will also write about her marriages. Her first husband was TV producer Michael Greenburg who she married in 1984 after she starred in his film The Vegas Strip War. They separated three years later, with a divorce finalized in 1990.

In 1993, she met producer Bill MacDonald, who left his wife for her and they became engaged, only to separate a year later. She returned the engagement ring via FedEx the following year. In 1994 she got engaged to a director, Bob Wagner, but never married.

In 1998, she married second husband Phil Bronstein, the executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2000, the couple adopted a baby son, Roan Joseph Bronstein.

But three years later Bronstein filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. The judge ruled the son would remain with Bronstein and Stone received visitation rights.

Among others she dated were country singer Dwight Yoakam, comedian Craig Ferguson, actor Christian Slater, Angelo Boffo. 

Her love: The book will cover her first marriage to Michael Greenburg (1984 to 1987). Here they are seen in 1996 at the Last Dance premiere with her friend Mimi Craven in the background

In 1998, she married second husband Phil Bronstein (pictured together), the executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2000, the couple adopted a baby son, Roan Joseph Bronstein

Stone also cheated death three times. She was struck by lightning while ironing. She told the Sun newspaper: ‘That was really intense. I was at home. We had a well. I was filling up the iron with water and I had my hand on the tap. 

‘The well got hit by lightning and it came up through the water. I got picked up and thrown across the kitchen and hit the refrigerator. Thankfully my mom belted me in the face and brought me to.’ 

When she was 14 years old, her neck was cut ‘to a sixteenth of an inch from my jugular vein on a clothesline.’

In the fall of 2001, the star was rushed to the hospital after having a ‘massive brain hemorrhage and stroke,’ forcing her to take a two-year hiatus from acting and leaving her with a ‘brain seizure condition’, which she ‘takes medication’ for, — all of which she’ll address in her memoir.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, she revealed, ‘I had the kind of stroke where one minute you’re standing and the next minute you’re flipped over the couch on the coffee table and everything is everywhere. I don’t know how long I was on the floor. It was three days before somebody took me to the hospital.’

She spent six days in the hospital. ‘They were going to send me home because they thought I was acting. This happens to me a lot.’

Stone, whose formal name is Sharon Vonne Stone, was born on March 10, 1958, in rural Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her father, Joseph, was a factory worker, and her mother, Dorothy Marie, was an accountant. She has three other siblings: two brothers and a sister

 It was in 1975, while attending a local college that she won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. For a time she quit college to become a model, but returned to school, claiming she was inspired by Hillary Clinton

She also had gallbladder disease and dental problems.

Stone, whose formal name is Sharon Vonne Stone, was born on March 10, 1958, in rural Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her father, Joseph, was a factory worker, and her mother, Dorothy Marie, was an accountant. She has three other siblings: two brothers and a sister.

It was in 1975, while attending a local college that she won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. For a time she quit college to become a model, but returned to school, claiming she was inspired by Hillary Clinton.

She was cast for her first film role in Woody Allen’s 1980 film Stardust Memories and played a ditsy meter maid in the first season of the TV sitcom Silver Spoons.

Still, she has been quoted as saying, ‘To say that it’s been an easy journey or a simple journey is not the case.’