Sharon Stone finally shares name of producer who ‘pressured her’ to have sex with co-star

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Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone has shared the name of the movie producer who allegedly pressured her to have sex with her co-star.

Stone got her big break in 1990 when she landed a role with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, and she has since gone on to appear in titles including The Quick and the Dead, When a Man Falls and Beauty.

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In 2021, Stone released a memoir titled The Beauty of Living Twice in which she described being pressured to have sex with a co-star, but she didn’t name those involved at the time.

Now, in an interview on Louis Theroux’s podcast, Stone revealed that the movie she was working on when the incident took place was the 1993 movie Sliver, in which she starred alongside Billy Baldwin, brother of Alec Baldwin.

Sharon Stone starred alongside Billy Baldwin in Silver. Credit: Paramount Pictures

With Sliver coming on the heels of the hit movie Basic Instinct, Stone recalled: “They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when it came time for me to do it they told me it was a vanity deal and I couldn’t have my approvals.

“Then they started to try to blame me for their mistakes, and they made terrible mistakes in the way that they hired directors and cast.”

One day, while she ‘should’ve been on set’, Stone was summoned into the office of actor-turned-producer Robert Evans, who died in 2019.

Stone claimed she was asked to sleep with Baldwin. Credit: Paramount Pictures

“He called me to his office,” Stone recalled. “He had these very low seventies, eighties couches, so I’m essentially sitting on the floor, when I should have been on set.”

The actor went on to claim that Evans encouraged her to sleep with Baldwin to help improve his performance on screen.

She said: “He’s running around his office in sunglasses explaining to me that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because if I slept with Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin’s performance would get better.

“And we needed Billy to get better in the movie because that was the problem.

“And if I could sleep with Billy then we’d have chemistry on screen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie, and the real problem with the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress who could just f**k him and get things back on track.

“The real problem was I was such a tight a**e.”

Sharon Stone spoke out in a new interview with Louis Theroux. Credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty Images

Looking back, Stone pointed out, “I didn’t have to f**k Michael Douglas” – who she starred alongside in Basic Instinct.

“Michael could come to work and know how to hit those marks, and do that line, and rehearse and show up. Now all of a sudden I’m in the “I have to f**k people” business,” she said.

When Stone first recalled the incident in her memoir, she wrote: “You guys insisted on this actor when he couldn’t get one whole scene out in the test. Now you think if I f**k him, he will become a fine actor? Nobody’s that good in bed.”

UNILAD reached out to representatives for Billy Baldwin, but they declined to comment.

TV star Paula Abdul claims she has messages showing alleged sexual harassment from American Idol producer

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Paula Abdul’s team say they have evidence to back the star’s sexual assault claims about Nigel Lythgoe.

Abdul recently filed a lawsuit against American Idol producer Lythgoe, accusing the 74-year-old of sexual assault.

The singer said in the suit launched in December 2023 that Lythgoe assaulted her for the first time during her seven-year stint as a judge on the popular singing competition.

Abdul exited American Idol in 2009 and was replaced by Ellen DeGeneres. She was only on the programme for one season, however, with Jennifer Lopez going on to take her spot.

As per ‘Straight Up’ singer Abdul’s suit against Lythgoe, the former So You Think You Can Dance producer ‘shoved Abdul against the wall, then grabbed her genitals and breasts, and began shoving his tongue down her throat’.

It goes on: “Abdul attempted to push Lythgoe away from her. When the doors to the elevator for her door opened, Abdul ran out of the elevator and to her hotel room.

“Abdul quickly called one of her representatives in tears to inform them of the assault.”

Paul Abdul claims that Nigel Lythgoe sexually assaulted her. Credits: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images

The pair then worked together on So You Think You Can Dance, when the alleged second assault took place.

The lawsuit goes on to claim Lythgoe knew what he’d done was ‘inappropriate and even criminal’ and ‘taunted’ her about how he’d gotten away with it on a phone call.

To back the accusations against Lythgoe, Abdul’s team say they have text messages between the pair, which have been obtained by TMZ via Abdul’s attorney Melissa Eubank.

The text messages from Lythgoe are said to have contained inappropriate comments such as promising ‘a big wet kiss with tongues’ and saying ‘I love you like a girlfriend’.

Elsewhere, a 2014 text seems to show the producer asking Abdul to ‘please make love to me’.

Eubank also said to TMZ that Lythgoe ‘victim-shamed’ the singer.

Speaking about the power Lythgoe had over Abdul, Eubank told the outlet: “He held the cards to her career in his hand and he knew it.”

Nigel Lythgoe pictured with Paula Abdul in 2016. Credits: Steve Granitz/WireImage

At the time of Adbul filing the suit, Lythgoe issued a statement and denied the claims.

“To say that I am shocked and saddened by the allegations made against me by Paula Abdul is a wild understatement,” the told TMZ.

“For more than two decades, Paula and I have interacted as dear – and entirely platonic – friends and colleagues.

“Yesterday, however, out of the blue, I learned of these claims in the press and I want to be clear: not only are they false, they are deeply offensive to me and to everything I stand for.”

UNILAD has contacted Lythgoe’s legal representative for comment in the wake of the alleged texts being released.