Pakistan, July 22 -- Hollywood star Sharon Stone has opened up about her brutal experience of defeating a "frigging" drug addiction, revealing how she finally reclaimed her life after decades of rely on stroke medications and cannabis.

Speaking to digital magazine Nineteen92 during an interview at her Beverly Hills estate, the iconic actress detailed her difficult journey toward a completely drug-free lifestyle, which began when she decided to stop taking a long-term medication prescribed following her near-fatal stroke in 2001. Stone explained that despite doctors telling her she could never go off the medication, she insisted on stopping it last September, describing the intense withdrawal process as akin to coming off heroin. She reca...