The Los Angeles Zoo has contradicted an account given by Sharon Stone‘s husband, Phil Bronstein, that he fought off a attack by a 7-foot Komodo dragon without the help of zoo officials, according to Saturday’s Los Angeles Times.
A zoo report released Friday says that the zoo’s reptile keeper, Jay Kilgore, was in fact the man who pried the giant lizard from Bronstein’s foot, and that Bronstein did nothing heroic to save himself from further injury. Stone was “hysterical” after the incident, but did tend to Bronstein’s injuries, fashioning a tourniquet out of a sock, the report also said.
Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, told his newspaper that he is not changing his account of the incident.
“This was a bizarre accident that became something far larger than it should be. But that’s how it goes when a movie star and a dragon are involved,” he said.
The zoo did take responsibility for the attack in the report, the Los Angeles Times said.
