Sharon Stone Dropped From Dior Advertisements

By Ona Zachary
12:28, May 30th 2008
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Sharon Stone Dropped From Dior Advertisements

Sharon Stone’s apologies and deep regrets for her offensive remarks about the earthquake in China could not make up for her erratic declarations she made at Cannes.

After suggesting that the recent tragedy in China happened due to bad karma, as a consequence of China’s policies regarding Tibet, the actress’ films were banned by film distributors in China and Hong Kong.

Dior reacted immediately, saying it didn’t agree with Stone’s “hasty, unreflecting remarks” and it regretted them.

“We absolutely do not support any remark that hurts the Chinese people's feelings,” the fashion label’s Chinese headquarters said in a released statement, in which they also apologized to the Chinese customers.

Fearing a possible boycott of its products in China, the luxury company announced on Thursday that it had dropped Stone from its advertising in China.

Realizing she had caused a scandal, the actress referred to her words during the interview as inappropriate and expressed her sadness and regret for “hurting Chinese people.” She also added she was willing “to take part in the relief work of China’s earthquake” and to help “affected Chinese people.”

Stone’s controversial remarks were made during this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The interview was posted on YouTube and was viewed 750,000 times so far.

The powerful earthquake in China, which killed around 70,000 people, impressed the world’s nations. Another 23,150 are also missing. More than 420,000 homes collapsed. The quake left approximately 5 million people without homes.



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