Sharon Stone opened up in her 2021 memoir The Beauty of Living Twice about an incident where a producer allegedly tried pressuring her into having sex with her Silver co-star William “Billy” Baldwin. On Tuesday’s episode of the Louis Theroux Podcast the actress revealed the name of the producer. 

Robert Evans, the aforementioned nameless producer, was allegedly the one involved in the incident. Stone claims Evans allegedly said it would produce better “onscreen chemistry” between the co-stars. Evans died in 2019. 

Stone said of the incident, “He’s running around his office in his 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,” Stone alleged of their conversation. “And we needed Billy to get better in the movie, because that was the problem.”

The actress added that Evan allegedly thought, “If I could sleep with Billy, then we would have chemistry onscreen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie. And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just fuck him and get things back on track. And the real problem was that I was such a tight ass.”

After the podcast aired, Baldwin quickly took to X to counter Stone’s claims and threatened to “write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon.”

“Not sure why Sharon Stone keep talking about me all these years later? Does she still have a crush on me or is she still hurt after all these years because I shunned her advances?” Baldwin said. “Did she say to her gal pal Janice Dickinson the day after I screen tested and ran into them on our MGM Grand flight back to New York… ‘I’m gonna make him fall so hard for me, it’s gonna make his head spin.’ ??? I have so much dirt on her it would make her head spin but I’ve kept quiet.”

“The story of the meeting I had with Bob Evans imploring him allow me to choreograph the final sex scene in the photo below so I wouldn’t have to kiss Sharon is absolute legend. Wonder if I should write a book and tell the many, many disturbing, kinky and unprofessional tales about Sharon? That might be fun,” Baldwin continued. 

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Dickinson refuted Baldwin’s claims about her alleged conversation with Stone, saying she had no recollection of any conversation with her of that nature. “I am not sure why Billy Baldwin is bringing this up. I adore them both but that never happened,” she continued. 

Following Stone’s depiction of the incident in her memoir, she wrote, “I felt they could have just hired a co-star with talent, someone who could deliver a scene and remember his lines. I also felt that they could f— him themselves and leave me out of it.”