Sharon Stone announces death of nephew after “total organ failure”

Sharon Stone announced Monday that her nephew and godson, River Stone, had died just over a week before her first birthday.

“River William Stone, September 8, 2020 – August 30, 2021,” the “Basic Instinct” actor wrote alongside a video tribute to Eric Clapton’s song “Tears in Heaven”.

Several days earlier, Stone, 63, had posted an image of River intubated, revealing that he had been found in the crib with a “total organ failure.”

“Please pray for him. We need a miracle, “he wrote.

River is the son of Stone’s younger brother, Patrick Stone, and his wife Tasha Stone, who wrote about River’s health on Facebook last week. He said he had been transferred to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and was in a coma.

“Every second of that literally kills me. I just want my sweet sweet boy back. The doctor said that if he does, it will never be the same, ”he wrote.

He shared the same tribute video on Monday as his sister-in-law alongside a heartbreaking message.

“God needed River in heaven. I can’t say more than I needed here on Earth because my heart is broken into a million pieces, ”he wrote. “My days will never be the same and I have no idea how I am supposed to live my life without the sweetest boy in the universe. I’m crushed. River William Stone you were loved out of size. Getting out of the hospital room today was the hardest thing I’ve ever had. I will always love you, my sweet child. “

Stone is the mother of three children: Quinn, 15, Laird, 16, and Roan, 21. She published about her nephew several times in the past, including last September, about a week after his birth. “Look who’s going home,” he wrote then.