Bradley Cooper's Humility Shines Through When Asked About Assisting Brooke Shields After Seizure
Bradley Cooper's humility shines through as he graciously discusses his assistance to Brooke Shields after her seizure
Bradley Cooper happened to be in the right place at the right time when he assisted Brooke Shields during a recent grand mal seizure.
Cooper, 48, expressed his happiness at being able to be there for Shields, 58, during her health scare in an interview with Extra on Monday, November 27.
Earlier this month, Shields disclosed that Bradley Cooper held her hand during a severe seizure she had in September. "Nobody knows about it," Shields told Glamour for the cover story published on November 1, expressing that she felt liberated after the incident.
While preparing for her cabaret show at Manhattan's Café Carlyle, the health scare happened. "I was drinking so much water and didn't realize my sodium was low. I was waiting for an Uber. I go down the steps and start to look strange, and [the people I was with] asked, 'Are you okay?' I drank all this water, left my house, and they kept asking me, 'Do you want coffee?' and I said, 'No.' 'Are you okay?' and I said, 'Yeah, great.' Then I walked to the corner for no reason at all."
Shields recalled questioning herself, "Why am I out here?" prior to stepping into L'Artusi restaurant. "I approached the sommelier who had just spent an hour watching my run-through," she recounted. "As I entered, two unfamiliar women approached me, and suddenly everything began to fade to black. My hands fell to my side, and I collapsed headfirst into the wall."
Shields described the symptoms of a grand mal seizure, recalling that she was "frothing at the mouth, turning completely blue, and trying to swallow my tongue." Her memory was restored as she was "being loaded into an ambulance" with oxygen on.
"I didn't have much of a sense of humor. I could barely speak. But I remember thinking to myself, 'This must be what death feels like,'" Shields quipped. "I woke up and Bradley Cooper was there, saying, 'I'm going to the hospital with you, Brooke,' and he was holding my hand. I looked at my hand, then at Bradley Cooper holding it, and it felt so odd and surreal."
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Cooper ended up at the hospital after the L'Artusi sommelier tried to reach Shields' husband, Chris Henchy. Instead, an assistant answered the phone and accidentally called Cooper, who happened to be nearby. Shields joked that she walked into the hospital with Cooper, and shared that the doctor diagnosed her health scare as due to low sodium, caused by consuming too much water. She explained that the imbalance in sodium levels in the body can lead to a seizure.
