The actress revealed that she had a health scare while preparing for her one-woman show.
Brooke Shieldsis opening up about a recent health scare and the surprising face who came to her aid.
“I was waiting for an Uber.
Brooke Shields and Bradley Cooper.Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images; Steven Ferdman/Getty Images
She walked to the street corner.
“I’m like, ‘Why am I out here?'”
I go in, two women come up to me; I don’t know them.
Everything starts to go black.
Then my hands drop to my side, and I go headfirst into the wall.”
“The next thing I remember, I’m being loaded into an ambulance.
I have oxygen on.”
Shields continued, “I didn’t have a sense of humor.
I couldn’t really get any words out.
But I thought to myself, This is what death must be like.
TheAmerican Hustleactor wound up at Shields’ side through a winding game of telephone.
The sommelier at the restaurant had attempted to reach Shields' husband, Chris Henchy.
Instead, they reached an assistant.
That assistant called another assistant, who called Cooper because he was in the area.
“His assistant called Bradley and said, ‘Brooke’s on the ground.
Chris isn’t around.
Go get her,'” she said.
“And he came, and somebody called the ambulance.
And then it was like, I walked in with Jesus.”
Representatives for Cooper didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment Wednesday.
The doctors ultimately told Shields that low sodium caused the seizure.
“I had had too much water,” she told the magazine.
“I flooded my system, and I drowned myself.
Shields said doctors kept asking if she had been limiting her salt intake because of the upcoming show.
“And I said, ‘You know what?
I’ve had it with male doctors.
I know you’re all smart smarter than I am in what you do.
But let me just tell you something: I look younger when I’m bloated.
If I’m bloated, people think I’ve had Botox.'”
