Sharon Stone's mother has passed away

In an emotional social media post, Sharon wrote: "My hilarious, complex mother died.

"A product of the last depression, let's NOT do this again. Let's protect and care."

The Basic Instinct star previously described her mother's parenting style as "tough" and explained that feminism was among "the rules of my household".

Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival in 2021, Sharon recalled asking Dorothy: "Why (do) you never let me lean on you?' She said: 'Because I taught you to stand on your two goddamn feet.'"

However, the actress explained that she later came to appreciate the tough love from her mother.

Sharon said: "She gave me the most loving, the most concerted thing a mother can give another woman.

"I didn't understand it when I was young, but at 15, in college, and later modelling in New York and Milan, it became a gift."

Sharon has three adopted sons - Roan, 25, Laird, 20, and Quinn, 19, and explained that she is glad that she prioritised motherhood over her Hollywood career after suffering a brain haemorrhage in 2001.

The Casino star told People in 2023: "I'm grateful that I chose motherhood as a healthy approach to my life and I didn't prioritise Hollywood, because they certainly didn't prioritise me."

Sharon lamented how her health scare halted her movie career and led the collapse of her marriage with journalist Phil Bronstein - with the couple divorcing in 2004.

She said: "I lost everything. I lost all my money. I lost custody of my child. I lost my career. I lost all those things that you feel are your real identity and your life.

"I never really got most of it back, but I've reached a point where I'm okay with it, where I really do recognise that I'm enough."

Sharon admits that it was tough to come to terms with her illness as she felt that she was supposed to be "taking care of everybody else".

She explained: "I come from a very broken family. I grew up believing that taking care of everybody else was what I was supposed to do. It took me a long time to understand that I had a life of my own and that I didn't have to fix it for everybody else, and that it was okay for me to receive care, for me to be enough as a disabled person.

"I feel proud of myself and proud of my accomplishments - from surviving to helping others survive."