Sharon Stone took to Instagram over the weekend to discover that her younger sister, Kelly Stone, is in the hospital fighting COVID-19.
“My sister Kelly, who already has lupus, now has COVID-19,” she wrote in her post. “This is her hospital room. One of your non-mask wearers did this. She has no immune system.”
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes pain and inflammation in various parts of the body, according to the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA). Lupus can affect your skin, kidneys, heart, joints and lungs.
Next, the 62-year-old actor explained that her sister had a strict regime of staying isolated, only taking trips to the pharmacy.
“The only place she went was the pharmacy,” wrote the “Basic Instinct” star. “There are no tests in their province unless you are symptomatic, and then it’s 5 days waiting for results.”
Her post on Saturday ended with a desperate plea for her fans and followers. She said, “Can you see this room alone? Wear a mask! For yourself and others. Please 💜.”
In another post, Stone asked her fans and followers to “please light a candle for my sister Kelly and her husband, my dear friend Bruce.”
Born in 1961, the younger Stone sister also took to social media to share her experience, posting a video of her hospital bed. In the dimly lit clip, she begged her followers “to know that this is real.”
“I breathe … for every breath!” she said in the clip, charging early Sunday morning. “Please do this for the people you love: stand behind more tests, more masks.”
“Tell everyone masks. You never, ever want to feel this. I promise you!”
When she became emotional, she added, “I only love. My heart breaks for people who can’t breathe!”
As of August 16, more than 5 million cases have been confirmed in the U.S., based on NBC News’ count. There have been more than 170,000 deaths.
