Brooke Shields Woke Up From a Seizure to Find Bradley Cooper Holding Her Hand

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | November 2, 2023 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | November 2, 2023 |

Brooke Shields revealed that she suffered a “full blown grand mal seizure” on September 7th while preparing for her one-woman show, Previously Owned.

Shields said she was drinking a lot of water and didn’t realize she was “low in sodium,” when she was waiting on the sidewalk for an Uber, and the people she was with told her she looked weird. They offered her a coffee, which she took, and then wandered down to the corner of the street in a haze.

“Then I walk into the restaurant L’Artusi, and I go to the sommelier who had just taken an hour to watch my run-through. 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. I start having a grand Mal seizure.”

She said she was “frothing at the mouth,” had turned “totally blue” and tried to swallow her tongue.

“The next thing I remember, I’m being loaded into an ambulance. I have oxygen on, and Bradley fucking Cooper is sitting next to me holding my hand.” Apparently, the restaurant sommelier tried calling Shield’s husband, Chris Henchy, first, “which ended up with an assistant reaching an assistant, who eventually called Bradley Cooper who was nearby.” Because I guess Brook Shields is just a few assistants away from Bradley Cooper.

“I thought to myself, ‘This is what death must be like. You wake up and Bradley Cooper’s going, ‘I’m going to the hospital with you, Brooke,’ and he’s holding my hand. 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.’”

She said that walking into the hospital with Bradley Cooper was like walking in “with Jesus.”

And now follows the best monologue Brooke Shields will ever deliver:

“And then the male doctors kept asking me if I was limiting my salt. 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. So as a 58-year-old woman, I’m not limiting my salt, okay? Stop trying to make me a crazy actress or a female that doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing. 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.”

As for the male doctors, their advice to avoid seizures was to “Eat potato chips every day.”