A shy girl from Georgia used to faint when a teacher asked her to speak in class. Twenty years later she was the most wanted face on earth.
In 1989, at the height of her fame, she bought an entire town in Georgia for twenty million dollars. Six years later it was broken up and sold off.
A jury ordered her to pay more than eight million dollars over a film she never made. She filed for bankruptcy five days later. The verdict was overturned — sixteen months too late.
All of it she lived through while carrying panic disorder and agoraphobia, which she kept to herself for forty-two years.
The real story of Kim Basinger: the Oscar, the ruin, fourteen years of silence — and the interview she finally gave, for her daughter.