Sharon Stone at amfAR's annual Cinema Against AIDS gala at The 2008 Cannes Film Festival held at at Le Moulin de Mougins, Cannes, France - 22.05.08

Acting legend Ernest Borgnine claims Stone - his co-star in 1981 horror film Deadly Blessing - insisted a tarantula have its pincers removed before she would shoot a scene with it.

He reveals, "Sharon wanted the spider's pincers removed."

And PETA bosses are furious. Spokesperson Ingrid Newkirk tells the New York Post, "She chose to make a tiny insect an amputee. Perhaps she should change her name legally to 'Heart of Stone'"

Earlier this month (Jul08) Newkirk wrote Stone a letter, offering Stone a brain scan after the actress suggested China's recent earthquake tragedy was "karma" for the way the nation treat Tibetans.

Source: WENN