Actress Sharon Stone may not have her facts straight about former football player O.J. Simpson’s 1994 car chase.
The “Basic Instinct” star told fashion magazine InStyle that she received a call from the Los Angeles Police Department while Simpson was actively eluding law enforcement after the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.
“He’s dangerous. And we don’t know how dangerous, and we don’t know what this is,” she told the outlet.
Stone said that officers showed up at her house and gave her ten minutes to pack.
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She was then whisked away to a hotel, where an officer stayed at her door, with another positioned in the reception area, while “O.J. was driving up and down the f**king freeway.”
Stone said the incident occurred at the height of her fame from “Basic Instinct,” which was out of control.
She said that the LAPD told her she could not return home and advised that she “find a secure house behind a gate.”
By that time, Simpson had already had a standoff with police, turned himself in and was charged with double homicide.
Stone bought a house in a gated community and hired security guards after the incident.
“It’s very expensive to be famous,” she noted. “You go out to dinner, and there’s 15 people at the table, and who gets the check? You get the $3,000 dinner check every single time.”
However, Stone’s gripping tale has been met with skepticism from some who were LAPD officers at the time.
TMZ caught up with David Gascon, former LAPD Media Relations commander, who scratched his head at the anecdote, stating he doesn’t recollect such an event.
Adding to the doubt is Tom Lange, claiming the story struck him as novel, wondering why Simpson would pose a threat to Stone.
Lange, who was the lead detective on the case, also tossed in the idea that the retelling of this incident might be linked to the upcoming 30th anniversary of the chase.
Plus, a retired LAPD officer, who talked to TMZ anonymously, shared the same confusion over the supposed peril Stone faced from Simpson, when he was busy being followed by twenty patrol cars.
Meanwhile, “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston, said that like Simpson, he was once also wanted for murder.
Cranston made the revelation that he was a suspect in a murder case on “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast, “Dinner’s On Me.”
The “Your Honor” star said that he and his brother were on a cross-country motorcycle trip when they became embroiled in a murder case.
They had stopped off in Daytona Beach, Florida, and picked up jobs as waiters at a restaurant headed by Chef Peter Wong, who was “just hated by everyone.”
The brothers eventually went back on the road, but unbeknownst to them, Wong disappeared around the time they took off.
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Weeks later, Wong was discovered dead, and the Cranston’s were the chief suspects in his murder.
“So they’re taking out all this information … Little did we know they put out an APB on us and to find us,” he told Ferguson.
“We were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think, at that point,” Cranston continued. “And we didn’t know any of this. So we’re just tooling along.”
“I can just imagine if someone really pulled us over and down on the ground with the guns,” he added.
However, they were cleared of Wong’s murder when police “put the pieces together” before they were able to catch up with them.
“They’ve had some witnesses and some cameras at the dog track,” Cranston detailed.
“And they saw what was going on and made an arrest,” he concluded. “And so we were this close.”