Last week, parts of Sharon Stone’s cover interview with the Tatler came out, and people got pissed. I was one of them. In the course of the interview, Sharon Stone was talking about aging in Hollywood, and she sort of went off on a tangent about why Meryl Streep has such a flourishing career. Stone said: “I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills – that looks like me in real life.’ Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

While many of you pointed out that perhaps this should be interpreted as Stone’s odd way of complimenting Meryl, I still think it’s a really f-cked-up, bitchy, snide insult. Stone is basically “complimenting” Meryl on looking totally average (in Stone’s mind), while the unspoken, nasty, passive-aggressive statement is really, in Stone’s mind, that she doesn’t get the same work as Meryl because she (Stone) is such a ravishing beauty, while Meryl isn’t. Meryl is “relatable” because she’s not beautiful, and women can’t “relate” to Sharon because she’s so gorgeous. That’s how I interpreted her comments initially, and I stand by it. I still think it was a horrible thing to say about Meryl Streep.

Anyway, Sharon gave an interview to PopEater where she’s trying to half-heartedly eat sh-t for how we “took” her comments. Here’s Stone’s statement to PopEater:

Sharon Stone is fighting back against a magazine quote in which the actress seemed to bash Meryl Streep, as Stone tells PopEater exclusively that the publication took her quote completely out of context. “It is not ok with me for someone to take a statement I made with good-natured intent and to try and make it in to something politically incorrect,” Stone tells PopEater.

The quote in UK’s Tattler Magazine (via Huffington Post), had Stone saying: “I think that’s why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to … Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that’s what I look like. To me, that looks true.”

Stone refutes how that quote is being portrayed, telling PopEater: “My love and support for what she [Streep] represents for women right now is extraordinarily important.”

Her publicist agrees, adding that “the full context of what Sharon said about Meryl Streep in her interview with Tattler Magazine was meant as a compliment. Sharon greatly admires Meryl as a person, an actress, and as a friend.”

The ‘Basic Instinct’ and ‘Casino’ actress also allegedly says in the Tattler interview: “I look at her and I think, ‘I’m chasing my kids, I’ve moved my parents in with me, I’m coping with food spills – that looks like me in real life.'”

Also in the Tattler interview, Stone denies having any plastic surgery done, but then is quoted saying she did have work done once. “I have had zero, nothing done to myself: no lifting, no Botox, no injectables,” she said. “I did try something once and I saw myself in a movie and didn’t like the way I looked. I thought I looked like I had a giant balloon head, and I felt it wasn’t for me.

[From PopEater]

So, basically, it’s all our fault for thinking Sharon Stone is a bitch. And not only is it our fault, Sharon wants us to know that “it’s not okay” for us to read her comments and think she’s a bitch. We were supposed to intuitively know that Sharon, in fact, meant the exact opposite of what she was recorded saying. Here’s what Sharon could have said: “I was trying to give Meryl a compliment, but it came out wrong and for that, I apologize. I love and worship her. She is a million times the actress I could ever dream of being, and she‘s gorgeous.” But no! Sharon thinks we’re being too “politically correct” while hiding behind another bullsh-t statement about Streep’s career representing “women’s rights.” She never denied saying or thinking that Meryl “looks like an unmade bed” and that’s why this non-denial denial is full of sh-t. Just like Sharon.

Tatler Magazine cover courtesy of Celebrity Candid.