Sharon Stone is sounding off on what she sees as a shift in how sexuality is portrayed on screen.

The “Basic Instinct” icon said today’s on-screen intimacy has lost the very thing that once made it powerful — mystery.

In a candid sit-down interview, Stone reflected on the infamous scene that helped define her career.

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“Sharon, when you look at your legendary career, what do you think about — I remember when ‘Basic Instinct’ came out? Cross the legs, uncross the legs,” anchor Gayle King said. “And I remember — ‘Is she wearing panties?’ — that’s how crazy it all became, right?”

“Right. It was a third of a frame,” Stone fired back. “It wasn’t even an entire frame of film.”

“And, so, people were desperately trying to figure it out,” she continued. “And I think that that idea of ‘oh my god,’ this hope, this wonder, this mystery, this intrigue, this yearning is something that is what all of our profound sexuality is based in.

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“So often now, when sex scenes come on TV — I fast-forward,” she said. “I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to have to go through all of this blatant, harsh sexuality. For me, it steals from my own imagination. And I prefer my yearning, mystery, desire. I want to keep that alive inside myself.”

The actress also acknowledged the lasting impact of her breakout role and the complicated legacy that followed.

“But that did change the trajectory of your career, it seems,” King noted.

“Oh my God, it changed everything,” Stone responded.

When asked how she feels about it today, Stone was candid about the personal cost.

“In many ways, I feel like I wasn’t protected and taken care of. And then, in many ways, I feel I was punished for the behavior of others,” she said.

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“You know, I lost custody of my child. … My child was put on the stand in custody court and asked if his mother did sex movies. I mean, things that were bizarrely inappropriate,” Stone explained. “People treated me in ways that were … very cruel and unkind, as if I was some sort of slatternly, vulgar person.”

“Like you were wearing a scarlet A on your head,” King added.

“Yeah, I mean, you know, I played a character — 30 years ago. Like, grow up,” Stone said.

Stone’s remarks echo frustrations she voiced earlier this year, when she took aim at what she described as Hollywood’s double standard over nudity.

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In an Instagram video posted in February, the 68-year-old actress criticized what she sees as hypocrisy after a film crew allegedly asked her to remove a painting of a nude woman from view during a shoot inside her home.

“Are we supposed to be terrified when we look in the mirror?” she asked in part. “Is it supposed to be a secret when we pee and poo and brush our teeth? Oh, are you supposed to look in there and go, ‘Oh, why are we supposed to be afraid of our own human self?’”

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In the caption accompanying the video, Stone expanded on her thoughts, arguing that society remains uncomfortable with the human body while tolerating other forms of content.

“Why in 2026 are we still afraid of aging & living in our own selves? We are more than appearance. We are artists, mothers, sisters, wives, nurses, teachers … and the list goes on!” she wrote.

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“I got really fired up about this when I was touring my studio a few weeks back. The filming crew had requested to move a painting out of shot, ‘the Goddess,’ who happens to be a naked woman. We are afraid of nudity on our screens, our bodies, our home … but not violence or every other thing we are constantly bombarded with day in and day out?

“Get real!” 

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Stone has continued to embrace her most iconic role during her illustrious Hollywood career.

In 2024, she paid homage to her “Basic Instinct” character, Catherine Tramell, by recreating the film’s signature leg-crossing moment in a bold Instagram post.

Dressed in red lace lingerie and seated in a white-and-gold chair, Stone paired the look with blue heels and a pearl necklace, offering a modern twist on the scene that once sparked global debate.

The famed actress rose to fame in the 1990s with breakthrough roles in “Basic Instinct” and “Casino.”

The car crash Tiger Woods got in on Friday resulted in his vehicle being turned on its driver’s side.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek confirmed in a news conference that Woods was traveling at “a high rate of speed” when his vehicle collided with another car.

With his car on the driver’s side, Woods was unable to get out of his door — so he needed to climb out through the passenger’s door.

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However, authorities said he was actually assisted by the other driver in the crash and another bystander.

“After the collision, [the other driver] stated he and an unknown subject assisted the driver out of the vehicle. [He] advised that due to the vehicle flipping on the driver’s side, the driver was unable to exit properly and had to climb out from the front passenger side. [He] advised he was the sole occupant in his vehicle and confirmed that the driver of the black SUV was the sole occupant,” an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital read.

The five-time Masters winner was arrested on charges of driving under the influence with property damage and refusal to submit to a blood alcohol level (BAL) test after law enforcement said his vehicle collided with another vehicle Friday afternoon while he was driving impaired. Prescription opioids were found in his pocket.

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According to the arrest affidavit, the pills were later identified as hydrocodone, a prescription opioid for pain relief. 

Woods previously told law enforcement prior to the field sobriety tests that he underwent seven back surgeries and “over 20 operations on his leg.” He told law enforcement that “I take a few” prescription medications.

Friday’s arrest marked Woods’ second DUI arrest within the last decade. In 2017, he was taken into custody, also in Jupiter Island, after taking prescription drugs and being asleep behind the wheel of a running car at roughly 3 a.m.

In 2021, he got into a wreck that resulted in serious leg injuries that kept him off the golf course for the entire year.

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos and Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.

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Jenny McCarthy has been enduring a “living hell” amid her ongoing illness that has caused eye growths and missing teeth. 

During an appearance on Maria Menounos’ “Heal Squad” podcast on Tuesday, the 53-year-old opened up about the current state of her health and what was at the root of her issues.

“Last time I was here, I was literally on my way to the biological dentist because I had gone through six months of living hell in my mouth,” she told Menounos. “I had an infected root canal. I didn’t know that root canals don’t last forever.”

McCarthy said her tooth was left in after the dentist thoroughly cleaned out the canal, but three weeks later, “my face blew up again.”

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“It got infected again,” she said, before revealing that it actually didn’t get cleaned out all the way. 

McCarthy explained that she developed a jawbone infection due to “three … little toxic pools hiding underneath [her] wisdom teeth.”

“There was an infection left in there and a bone grafted on top of it, so I went on my merry way with an infection brewing in my bone,” she said. “I wound up a few months later basically getting a jawbone infection.”

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Though she underwent multiple oral surgeries, McCarthy kept getting infections, which caused insomnia, agonizing leg cramps and growths on her eyelids. 

 “It looked like the nastiest whitehead pus-filled eraser top growing on my [eyelid],” she said. 

McCarthy said that the growths kept growing back.

“My doctor was like, ‘hold on, you’re the healthiest patient we have. We have to dig deeper. We’re going to test you for mold.'”

Her doctor concluded the cause of all of McCarthy’s issues was due to mycotoxin poisoning. 

McCarthy told Menounos she was three months into a “heavy-duty mold protocol” that could last up to one year.

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Last year, McCarthy opened up about the harrowing ordeal in an interview with People. 

“My teeth were falling out, implants falling out,” she told the outlet about the beginning of her journey. “They finally had to dig into my jawbone and chipped away, and found I had a deep bone infection. I’ve been on antibiotics for a year, and have had to eat soft foods only.”

She added, “I’ve had nine surgeries this year, on my mouth, I had one infection that turned into another and another, and then I had these growths show up on my eyeballs.”

The issues were originally caused, she explained, by a ceramic dental implant.

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“As of now, I’m able to chew again,” McCarthy said, “but every time we thought it had cleared up, it came back again, I’d be in massive pain with my jaw swelling up, and at the same time I was getting these growths popping up on my eyeballs.”

She added, “People should actually feel a little sorry for me!”

McCarthy credited her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, for his support. 

McCarthy and Wahlberg have been married for 11 years, and in October, the “Blue Bloods” actor told Fox News Digital about one of the ways they keep their relationship going strong.

“Well, we’ve both been divorced before, so we did a lot of individual therapy and when we got together we decided, let’s do some together, sort of preemptive, because no matter what, every new relationship brings on new challenges, and sometimes we don’t even know what activates us, what causes us to react to certain things and brings out vulnerabilities in us,” said Wahlberg.

“But intimate new relationships are usually where they surface,” he continued. “Some of us are really good at working in a work environment or with friends. We can give advice, and we can handle things, but sometimes you get into a romantic relationship and suddenly things bother you that don’t bother you in other parts of your life. And it’s because it’s the most vulnerable relationship you’re going to be in, and that’s where those vulnerabilities pop up.”

Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this report.