Current:Home > InvestBrooke Shields reveals she suffered grand mal seizure — and Bradley Cooper was by her side -WealthPro Academy
Brooke Shields reveals she suffered grand mal seizure — and Bradley Cooper was by her side
View
Date:2025-04-16 19:41:31
Brooke Shields found her guardian angel in Bradley Cooper.
Shields opened up about how the “Maestro” star supported her through a recent medical episode in an interview with Glamour published Wednesday.
The actress, who wrapped her one-woman show “Previously Owned by Brooke Shields” in September, revealed Cooper came to her rescue after having a grand mal seizure before a performance.
“I was preparing for the show and I was drinking so much water, and I didn’t know I was low in sodium,” Shields told the magazine. “I was waiting for an Uber. I get down to the bottom of the steps, and I start evidently looking weird and (the people I was with) were like, ‘Are you okay?’”
A grand mal seizure, also known as a tonic-clonic seizure, causes a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions, according to Mayo Clinic. The condition is typically caused by epilepsy, but other health factors such as low blood sugar, high fever and stroke can also lead to seizure.
After walking into a restaurant, Shield recalled that “everything (started) to go black. Then my hands drop to my side, and I go headfirst into the wall.”
When the restaurant’s sommelier couldn’t get in touch with Shield’s husband Chris Henchy, an assistant reached out to Cooper, who was in the area.
“I didn’t have a sense of humor. I couldn’t really get any words out,” Shields recalled. “But I thought to myself, ‘This is what death must be like.' You wake up and Bradley Cooper’s going, ‘I’m going to go to the hospital with you, Brooke,’ and he’s holding my hand. And I’m looking at my hand, I’m looking at Bradley Cooper’s hand in my hand, and I’m like, ‘This is odd and surreal.’”
Shields said the seizure stemmed from a sodium deficiency and drinking too much water.
“I flooded my system, and I drowned myself. And if you don’t have enough sodium in your blood or urine or your body, you can have a seizure,” Shields said. “I was drinking too much water because I felt dehydrated because I was singing more than I’ve ever sung in my life and doing a show and a podcast. So, (the doctors) were just like, ‘Eat potato chips every day.’”
Approaching health and fitness with self-compassion has become a priority for the “Pretty Baby” star.
“I love food and I love alcohol, and I love life and I want to be healthy for my heart,” Shields said. “I don’t like going to the gym. I like Pilates. That’s where I am. And I am tired of not feeling skinny enough. It’s boring, and it’s a waste of my time.”
“I wish stuff was a little higher, and I have a bit of a belly that I never had and I could lose it if I really, really wanted to try,” Shields concluded. “But I would rather spend that time having lunch, reading a book, walking, buying a piece of jewelry, going to my daughter’s games.”
Brooke Shields 'never' reconnected withex Andre Agassi: 'People process things very differently'
'Stay alive and get out':Brooke Shields reveals she was raped in 'Pretty Baby' documentary
veryGood! (85)
Related
- Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
- Real estate, real wages, real supply chain madness
- 5 takeaways from the front lines of the inflation fight
- Tired of Wells That Threaten Residents’ Health, a Small California Town Takes on the Oil Industry
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- El Paso mass shooter gets 90 consecutive life sentences for killing 23 people in Walmart shooting
- Why the proposed TikTok ban is more about politics than privacy, according to experts
- Trump says he'd bring back travel ban that's even bigger than before
- Sam Taylor
- Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit
Ranking
- Working Well: When holidays present rude customers, taking breaks and the high road preserve peace
- Kim and Khloe Kardashian Take Barbie Girls Chicago, True, Stormi and Dream on Fantastic Outing
- Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?
- Biden approves banning TikTok from federal government phones
- Stamford Road collision sends motorcyclist flying; driver arrested
- In Alaska’s North, Covid-19 Has Not Stopped the Trump Administration’s Quest to Drill for Oil
- In big win for Tesla, more car companies plan to use its supercharging network
- These 7 charts show how life got pricier (and, yes, cheaper!) in 2022
Recommendation
Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82
Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets
NFL 'Sunday Ticket' is headed to YouTube beginning next season
People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings
Military service academies see drop in reported sexual assaults after alarming surge
Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets
Louisville’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Demonstrations Continue a Long Quest for Environmental Justice
Samuel L. Jackson Marvelously Reacts to Bad Viral Face at Tony Awards 2023