Sharon Stone remembers the life-threatening stroke she had nearly two decades ago vividly.

The actress, 63, spoke on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Late Show with James Corden about her near-death experience in 2001, which she chronicled in her recently released memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice.

Stone stated during the interview on Wednesday that she had been suffering from brain hemorrhage for many days before being taken to the hospital.

“I became unconscious when I got [to hospital],” she stated. “I fell out of the truck and I became unconscious. And they put me in a CT scan machine to find out what was happening to me and I was unconscious that whole time.

“Then when I came to, I was on a table in a very quiet emergency room, which is never good – when it’s like no one’s in there, just the doctor, no one’s running around, nobody’s doing anything urgently. And the doctor is just looking at me so compassionately, and I was like, ‘Am I dying?’ Because I realised this is a bad situation.”

The doctor then informed Stone that she was bleeding into her brain and that she would be transferred to a neurological hospital since the institution she was at lacked the necessary equipment to treat the Basic Instinct actor.

“So they put me on this gurney that they were going to be able to move so that the ambulance could take me elsewhere,” Stone explained to Corden. “And once I got on that gurney, all of a sudden, that was it and I was just gone. I felt myself kind of do this sweep upwards and there was this just, like, tunnel of light.”

“[I saw] several people that I had been very close to or had been their caretakers until they died were kind of looking down. I felt like they were kind of telling me, ‘This is all great. This is all fine. This is going to be wonderful.’ And I felt like, ‘Oh, I’m going to be with you guys, okay.’ And I was really moving quickly.”

Stone, on the other hand, said that “something happened” that made her feel like she had been “kicked in the chest really, really hard.” The actress stated that she was unsure if a defibrillator was used on her.

Stone claimed she came back to her senses on the gurney while still in the emergency department when she was asked to describe what was going on.

“The doctor said, ‘What do you need?’ and I said, “I really have to pee.’ And he just pointed to the bathroom,” Stone continued. “I remember looking down and thinking that the floor was very far away. I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t know how I’m going to get down.’ It just seemed like I was floating,” and then they took me to the other hospital.

‘It was very beautiful, it was very strange,’ she continued.

“I went to the other hospital. A lot of different things happened — bad and good. Ultimately they gave me an angiogram. They missed my brain bleed. I continued to bleed into my brain for like another maybe like five or six days.”

Stone went on to say that the doctors felt she was “faking it.”

She remarked, “I guess Because they must think I’m a really fabulous actress. But eventually, they were going to send me home, and I said to my best friend, you know, ‘I’m dying.’ And she just went out and just threw a fit and said you cannot send her home, nobody sleeps 20 hours a day. She’s going in and out of a coma.”

“So they gave me another angiogram and they realized that my vertebral artery had completely ruptured and I had been bleeding into my brain all this time,” she continued, adding that she had to undergo a “seven-hour surgery.” She made it through, but it took a long time for her to recuperate.

It was 10 days after 9/11 and for her, it felt like ‘the whole world was upside down.’