Actress Brooke Shields has given a health update and assured fans she’s doing well after being rushed to hospital following a grand mal seizure last month.
The Blue Lagoon star, 58, told People at the Glamour Woman of the Year Awards this week, that her health is back on track after learning she had low sodium levels.
After drinking a lot of water the day she had her seizure, Shields said, “I didn’t know the serious nature of flooding your system, flooding yourself with the necessary sodium that one needs, and how your kidneys can malfunction.”
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“I’m fine… I mean, now my salt is okay,” Shields told the publication.
The actress recently revealed she was rushed to hospital with Bradley Cooper by her side after suffering a grand mal seizure.
Shields told Glamour magazine about the terrifying incident that took place the same week as her cabaret show debut in New York late last month.
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Shields explained that people around her kept asking if she was alright before she passed out while visiting a New York City restaurant.
“Everything starts to go black. Then my hands drop to my side and I go headfirst into the wall,” she explained.
“It means frothing at the mouth, totally blue, trying to swallow my tongue.”
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Shields explained that staffers at the restaurant tried to call her husband Chris Henchy for help, before one assistant called Bradley Cooper, one of her close friends who was nearby. They also called an ambulance.
Cooper and Shields both appeared in 2008 film, The Midnight Meat Train.
Shields says she remembers the actor, 48, holding her hand and telling her he was going to the hospital with her.
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“I couldn’t really get any words out. But I thought to myself, This is what death must be like,” Shields said.
Shields said on top of the seizure, she suffered a bout of bronchitis while in hospital.
She said that doctors told her the seizure took place due to her having low sodium levels and drinking too much water, saying she ”drowned herself”.
According to the Mayo Clinic, a grand mal seizure also known as a tonic-clonic seizure, causes ”violent muscle contractions” and cause people to lose consciousness.
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