SHARON STONE - SHARON STONE: TAKE HEADACHES SERIOUSLY

SHARON STONE is marking the second anniversary of her life-threatening brain haemorrhage by urging others to race to the hospital whenever they have a really bad headache.

The actress wasted time in getting to the experts when she started stuttering and suffered hearing loss in September 2001.

If it hadn't been for estranged husband PHIL BRONSTEIN returning from a trip, checking her blood pressure and racing her off to hospital three days after her first brain attack, she's convinced she'd be dead.

She explains, "The pain was so severe and overwhelming and it knocked me over. I was stuttering and having numbness in my foot and I was having difficulty hearing right.

"Three days later Phil came back, checked my blood pressure, which was off the chart, and put me in the car and took me to the hospital. I fell unconscious in the car."

And now Stone urges everyone to take severe headaches very seriously, and get them checked.

She adds, "If you get one of those headaches that's really bigger and much worse than usual, please go directly to the hospital. These things are very important."