Sharon Stone, 66, strips down to just bikini bottoms to work on her latest painting - after claiming she lost $18 MILLION following her stroke when 'people took advantage' of her

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It's not quite as risqué as that legendary Basic Instinct leg cross, but Sharon Stone still managed to raise eyebrows after sharing her latest Instagram content on Tuesday. 

The Academy Award nominated star stripped down to her bikini bottoms while working on a new painting at her California home. 

Stone, 66, an accomplished artist who has previously exhibited her work, shared a photo of the unfinished abstract while standing with her naked back to camera. 

Captioning the post, she wrote: 'Sometimes I just have to go from pool to painting.' 

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, Stone claimed the $18 million she had accrued after more than two decades in the film industry evaporated during the years she was unable to work due to brain damage from the stroke.

Stone — who has controversially claimed that Kevin Spacey's banishment from Hollywood was partially inspired by homophobia  — attributed her loss of millions to people around her who allegedly mismanaged her money as she struggled to regain basic functions, like the ability to read, which she lost 'for a couple of years.'

In total, Stone said it took her seven years to mostly recover from the effects of the life-threatening stroke, which doctors gave her just one in 100 odds of surviving.

'People took advantage of me over that [recovery] time,' Stone claimed. 'I had $18 million saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone.'

She described the surreal feeling of having little to her name one she was competent enough to take over her finances.

'My refrigerator, my phone — everything was in other people’s names,' she revealed.

Stone then clarified: 'I had zero money.'

It's not clear what Stone had to pay in medical bills and years of therapies, but she described the sever symptoms caused by her subarachnoid hemorrhage.

'I bled into my brain for nine days, so my brain was shoved to the front of my face,' she explained, adding, 'It wasn’t positioned in my head where it was before.'

The physical change to her brain meant that 'everything changed.'

'My sense of smell, my sight, my touch. I couldn’t read for a couple of years,' the Oscar nominee admitted. 'Things were stretched and I was seeing color patterns.

'A lot of people thought I was going to die,' she added.

Beyond the changes to her senses, Stone agreed 'one hundred percent' that the stroke changed how she thinks.

'A Buddhist monk told me that I had been reincarnated into my same body,' she shared. 'I had a death experience and then they brought me back.'