Sharon Stone feels she's 'doing the right thing' sharing her sister's dire COVID-19 fight

Sharon Stone has had it with people who aren't taking coronavirus seriously. The actress revealed earlier this summer that her sister Kelly, who also has lupus, had contracted the disease and was hospitalized along with her husband, Bruce Singer. Since then, both Kelly and Sharon have been documenting the harrowing experience of fighting the virus and how it wreaks havoc on the body. Speaking to eTalk's Traci Melchor, Sharon says it's crucial for her to spread the message that COVID-19 is no joke."People all over the world are going through this—they're the one sick or they're the one healthy helping the sick," she said. "There's too many people sick now that pretty soon it's going to be like HIV where it hasn't [not] touched a friend or member of a family. We're all in it together now and until well all get in it together, all of us, we're not going to find a way out of it.""I just, through my own experience, wanted to share and urge everybody to just be respectful and loving of yourself and others," she added, admitting that sometimes "it feels like my hair's falling out," trying to get people to listen.

 

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Please light candles for my sister Kelly and her husband, my dear friend Bruce ???? Repost from @thekellystone • This is us. March 13. Drove to our paradise in Montana. We thought covid wouldn’t and couldn’t find us. No shopping, no parties, barely saw a human. Now fighting for a breath.you don’t want covid.

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It was in August that Sharon first shared photos and videos from her sister and brother-in-law's experience with COVID-19. In one video, Kelly says she's "gasping for every breath" and "begs" viewers to take the virus seriously and wear a mask. She has since recovered and had a negative COVID test, but Sharon described the dire situation they were in before that. Arriving at the hospital with blood oxygen levels of 72 mm Hg and 78 mm Hg respectively, Kelly and Bruce were almost turned away because the frontline workers there had such limited resources."There was still an argument at the door of the emergency room if they were really going to admit them because people don't want COVID-positive patients," Sharon said. "It's unbelievable because that's the oxygen level of a corpse... they ended up in the same room and the frontline nurses didn't have same-day testing. They had five-day testing they could get if they were symptomatic. By the time you're symptomatic, by the time you're fevering, you're shedding the virus... so if you're not getting same-day testing on the frontlines, you're going to work with COVID."She explained that though she and her family were fortunate that her sister recovered, there were some scary times before that."We learned a lot being the person who wasn't sick when they were hallucinating and losing bodily functions or when their fever was astronomical, being the person who was talking them through the nights when they said, 'I don't think I'm going to live tonight. I don't think I'm going to make it and here's what I want you to do,'" Sharon continued. "And you had to talk them through, 'You are going to make it and here's why,' and the person is delirious." At the end of August, Kelly shared that though she was tired, she's been thankful for the support from friends, family and the public and feeling much better at home.[video_embed id='2031626'] RELATED: What set life looks like as the stars return to work [/video_embed]With a medical drama worse than any writers' room could think up gripping the planet right now, Stone's latest project seems almost timid in comparison. Sharon stars alongside Sarah Paulson and Cynthia Nixon in the upcoming Netfix series Ratched, exploring the origin story of the infamous villain Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Stone plays Lenore Osgood, who is, simply put, the overbearing mother of a sick teenager, but Sharon says there's a whole lot more to it than that."I had to look at Lenore kind of objectively because I think she's nuts," Stone said with a shrug. "I think she made poor choices in the way she connected with her son because her son is unhealthy and instead of understanding his lack of health and overseeing him, she absorbed the blame and responsibility and started carrying it on her shoulder."

 

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As Lenore is driven to madness trying to find a way to save her son from his illness and from himself, Sharon said it was such a complex character that she wasn't even sure she could do it. It took a meeting with show creator Ryan Murphy to convince her otherwise."He didn't have to convince me as much as I had to convince me," she said. "It really took me absorbing what it was he was asking me to do and how I would eventually deliver that."[video_embed id='2021405']BEFORE YOU GO: Woman films creepy doll moving on its own [/video_embed]