about what I feel in my heart and end all of the understandings , '' she said . `` They 're not being nice to the Dalai Lama , who is a friend of mine , '' Stone said on camera at the time , discussing the Chinese . `` And then all of this earthquake and all this happened and I thought , is that karma ? When you 're not nice , that bad things happen to you ? '' Qin Gang , spokesman for China 's Foreign Ministry , said Stone `` should do more to promote understanding and friendship between nations . '' French fashion house Christian Dior said it would drop Stone from its advertisements in China after her May 22 remarks . `` We absolutely disagree with her hasty comments , and we are also deeply sorry about them , '' Dior said in a statement from its Shanghai , China , headquarters . But Stone said she was `` deeply saddened by the pain that this whole situation has caused the victims of the devastating earthquake in China . '' As of Friday , the death toll from the May 12 magnitude-7 .9
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Actress Sharon Stone said in a statement Saturday that she `` could not be more regretful '' of her comments this month regarding the earthquake in China , in which she suggested that the quake was an act of `` karma . '' Sharon Stone made the controversial remarks before she hosted a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival . `` Yes , I misspoke , '' said the statement released by Stone 's publicist and entitled `` In my own words by Sharon Stone . '' `` I could not be more regretful of that mistake . It was unintentional . I apologize . Those words were never meant to be hurtful to anyone , '' Stone said . `` They were an accident of my distraction and a product of news sensationalism . '' Stone said Saturday that she was issuing the statement to set the record straight about the comments she made to a reporter at the Cannes Film Festival . The statement drew fire from citizens and government officials . `` There have been numerous reports about what I said in Cannes . I would like to set the record straight