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Brooke Shields Says She Was Hospitalized For A Grand Mal Seizure After Drinking Too Much Water
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Brooke Shields revealed she recently experienced a grand mal seizure as a result of drinking too much water, and was accompanied in the ambulance by Bradley Cooper.
In an interview with Glamour for the magazines Women of the Year 2023 issue, Shields said the incident occurred when she was preparing for her one-woman show at The Carlyle in New York City. She said she began drinking a lot of water because she “felt dehydrated” due to “singing more than Ive ever sung in my life and doing a show and a podcast.”
“I was drinking so much water, and I didnt know I was low in sodium. I was waiting for an Uber,” she recalled.
“I get down to the bottom of the steps, and I start evidently looking weird, and [people] were like, Are you OK?’” she said.
Shields, 58, recovered enough to make her way to L’Artusi in the West Village, but soon feel ill.
“I go in, two women come up to me; I dont know them. Everything starts to go black. Then my hands drop to my side and I go headfirst into the wall,” she said.
“I start having a grand mal seizure. It means frothing at the mouth, totally blue, trying to swallow my tongue. The next thing I remember, Im being loaded into an ambulance. I have oxygen on, she said.
As she took in her surroundings, she realized the person in the ambulance holding her hand was actor Bradley fing Cooper.
The L-Artusi sommelier had attempted to call Shields’ husband, Chris Henchy, but reached an assistant. That assistant contacted another assistant, who called Cooper because he happened to be nearby.
“And then it was like, I walked in with Jesus,” Shields said. She was admitted to the intensive care unit, where doctors initially thought her brain was seizing.
Doctors soon told her she had a seizure caused by drinking too much water while having low sodium.
“I flooded my system, and I drowned myself,” she said, “and if you dont have enough sodium in your blood or urine or your body, you can have a seizure.”
The Pretty Baby star went on to make a full recovery.
TMX contributed to this article.
