William Shatner has opened up about the bizarre story of how a kidney stone that he passed went on the auction block in 2006.The 95-year-old Star Trek icon recently appeared on Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny, where he detailed how the stone was bought by a gambling company.’I have a kidney stone, and the guy takes it out, here it is, a little black pellet. Thank God it’s gone,’ he remembered. ‘A week later, I get a phone call from a Canadian gambling company who, by law, can’t advertise. So what they do… they find ways of doing it.’Shatner went on to share that the company asked to buy the kidney stone – also known as a nephrolith – and ‘they auctioned it off for $75,000.’The actor, who was seen driving erratically last month, was starring on the television drama Boston Legal at the time, and the funds from the auction were combined with money raised by the cast to purchase a Habitat for Humanity house.’A home in Louisiana and a family of five, last time I checked, was living in that house,’ he told hosts Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, both of whom appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation. William Shatner has opened up about the his kidney stone that was auctioned in 2006 The 95-year-old Star Trek sensation appeared on Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny, where he detailed how the stone was bought by a gambling company; pictured on October 10He emphasized: ‘My kidney stone plus $25,000 for raised from the cast. We gave Habitat for Humanity $100,000 to make a home for a family.’It was previously reported by CBS News that Shatner had sold it to the gambling business for $25,000.The nonagenarian’s memoir William Shatner… And You was published on August 31.The author told People at the time: ‘My greatest joy has been the connection I’ve shared with fans over the years. William Shatner… And You is a celebration of them: their stories, their passion and the bond we’ve built together.’For the literary effort, which he announced in August 2025, he mined stories and points of views from friends and fans.Shatner asked fans to share anecdotes about how his work has affected them, People reported.He then chose several people to be interviewed by him for the book.’The people who have been influenced by Star Trek are so numerous,’ Shatner penned in the memoir. ‘I was astonished by the complexity of what we’ve uncovered… It’s given me a deeper insight into our audience. It was a pleasure to talk to the people in the book who shared perspectives that I will always treasure.'[embedded content] Shatner spoke with Ben Stiller on Saturday at New York Comic Con Shatner and Stiller posed for a photo at Javits CenterShatner is best known as Star Trek Captain James T Kirk from 1966 until 1969; he voiced the character in the animated series from 1973 until 1974.He went on to play Captain Kirk in seven feature films from 1979 until 1994.The actor also played the title role in T J Hooker from 1982 until 1986.On Saturday, he appeared at New York Comic Con, where he spoke alongside Ben Stiller as he marked Star Trek’s 60th anniversary.During the panel, he remembered his late friend and Star Trek costar Leonard Nimoy, who died in 2015 at 83.’I loved him. He was my brother,’ he said, according to an account from USA Today.He reflected: ‘We were very much the same. Born four days apart: He in Boston, me in Montreal. ‘The cities are very similar. And the struggles we had as actors, and the divorces, and the deaths, and the children.’Shatner was married to Gloria Rand from 1956 until their divorce in 1969; they have three children: Leslie, Lisabeth and Melanie.His second marriage was to Marcy Lafferty, from 1973 to 1996, and his third wife was Nerine Kidd Shatner, whom he married in 1997.Nerine died in August 1999 after an accidental drowning in their swimming pool; the 40-year-old had alcohol and Valium in her system at the time of death.He married Elizabeth Martin two years later in 2001. They divorced in 2020, then rekindled in 2023.