Sharon Stone's Royal Roots: Rags to Riches Tale

0:00It's April 29th. Entertainment and celebrity news today starts now, AI powered in trending. Sharon Stone dropped the bombshell on the Drew Barrymore show this week, claiming she's got royal blood running through her veins. The 67-year-old icon traced it back to her dad's side, where his family were original oil drillers in oil-city Pennsylvania, with deep ties. To European royalty. But a tragic oil-well explosion wiped out the men, and old rules meant the women got nothing, leaving them broke. Her father grew up dirt-porn and barn-stall after that, working odd jobs while his mom nursed in asylum. Stone's mom had a rough two, basically orphaned young, and raised as a maid from age nine. Despite the poverty from the Great Depression era, her dad eventually bought back their ruined family mansion. CBS is finding her roots last year, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. stunned her by revealing Charlemagne, the six-foot-four-king who shaped medieval. Europe as her 38th-grade grandfather.

1:00She was floored, bursting into tears over links to French kings like Huccapey II, plus a civil war union fighter ancestor. But here's the twist. Geneticists say it's not that rare. After Adam Rutherford points out literally, every person in Europe descends from Charlemagne through exploding family trees backward in time. Celebes just have the cash to trace it. Stone's story hits home as a rags-two riches tale, with a royal remix, reminding us how history's big shots echo in everyday folks like us.