Sharon Stone makes 'great' connection on 'Finding Your Roots': 'Mind blown'
Sharon Stone le Magne? The actress is learning about her ancestral background and finding out about a "great" family connection.
Stone, 66, learned of her distant connection to a powerful European leader on the latest episode of "Finding Your Roots" with host and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
"We discovered that we could trace one of her paternal lines back into the very distant past," Gates narrated. "The line contains a slave owner in colonial Connecticut, but it also contains two French kings, and it culminates with one of the most famous men who ever lived."
"What's his name?" Stone asked, looking at a 16th-century portrait, with Gates answering: "His name is Charlemagne."
While Stone is left virtually stunned and speechless, Gates confirms Charlemagne is Stone's 38th great-grandfather. Stone's head falls backward in disbelief.
"The first Holy Roman Emperor. He was a mean dude," Gates said. Still processing, Stone finally said: "Charlemagne was my grandfather."
Gates goes on to tell Stone more about her great-grandpa, the King of the Franks, the Lombards and the Emperor of much of Western and Central Europe. "He's one of the most important people in history of course, and he basically created modern Europe, with an iron will."
"Well, if you want to see someone whose mind is completely blown, here it is," Stone said, flashing a smile.
Tuesday's episode of "Finding Your Roots" also features Chrissy Teigen, who finds out about her Roma heritage and that despite thinking for all her life her paternal grandmother was Jewish, she has no such ancestry.
"You have no idea how proud I was to be Jewish," Teigen said. "I was like, 'That's why I'm so funny.'"