Sharon Stone talks karma, China quake
Red carpet questions are usually limited to “What are you wearing?” or “Who are you dating?” But when Sharon Stone was unexpectedly asked about the recent earthquake in China – which claimed the lives of 80,000 people – the actress walked right into a political minefield.
“At first, I’m not happy with the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans …,” she said on camera Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, referring to the country’s alleged human rights violations. “And then all this earthquake and stuff happened and I thought, ‘Is that Karma, when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?’ ”
The 50-year-old actress – who has a long history of political activism and is friends with Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama – added that she’d recently gotten a letter from a Tibetan organization planning to do disaster relief work in China.
It made Stone realize, “sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who are not nice to you,” she explained. “That’s a big lesson for me.”
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May 27th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
This is not the dumbest thing she’s ever said and what does that say about her?
May 27th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
thx gregg. couldn’t agree more.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I love when celebrities open their mouth, and then it bites them in the ass.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
that’s fucking ridiculous. right, tens of thousands of chinese children died because of karma for their government’s treatment of tibet. RIGHT. fuck sharon stone
May 28th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Please tell Sharon Stone to STFU..
May 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am
What a Racist!! She has compassion for people with AIDS, people with AIDS people usually get that from something they have done. But these people have been killed by a storm and she has no compassion!! I don’t understand these LIBRALS!! All one way!!!