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Sharon Stone: 'I was punished for my sexuality'

Hollywood star Sharon Stone tells BBC 100 Women how she used her fame as a sex symbol in the 1990s - a term she didn't always enjoy - to raise money for humanitarian causes and recounts the moments when a brain haemorrhage nearly ended her life.

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