Sharon Stone wins the Palme d'Gaffe in China

Posted By Blake Hounshell Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 10:26 AM Share

Sharon Stone is in big trouble with China.

Speaking last week at the Cannes film festival, the American actress made the following ill-advised remark to a Hong Kong TV station:

And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma -- when you're not nice -- that the bad things happen to you?

As you might imagine, Stone's riff wasn't viewed too kindly by Chinese netizens, who have added her to their growing pantheon of personae non grata and are organizing a boycott of Stone-related products. Theaters are dropping her movies, department stores are taking down her image, and cosmetics brand Christian Dior has been scrambling to distance itself from the actress, who since 2005 has been the face of one of its skin products. I think it's fair to say Stone is discovering that karma can be a real b*tch sometimes.

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