‘Odd And Surreal’: Brooke Shields Had A Grand Mal Seizure — And Bradley Cooper Came To The Rescue

Actress and model Brooke Shields revealed that she recently suffered a grand mal seizure — and that when she woke up, actor Bradley Cooper was in the ambulance with her, holding her hand.

Shields made the comments during a recent interview with Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry — with whom she’s been friends for nearly a decade — for the magazine’s “Women of the Year” 2023 issue.

Over a glass of champagne, Shields casually dropped the bomb: “I had a full-blown grand mal seizure on Thursday before the show. Nobody knows about it.”

Barry pressed for the full story, and Shields obliged.

“I was preparing for the show, and I was drinking so much water, and I didn’t know I was low in sodium. 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?'” she began.

“I drank all this water. I leave my house. And they kept asking me, ‘Do you want coffee?’ And I was like, ‘No.’ ‘Are you all right?’ I go, ‘Yeah, great.’ Then I walked to the corner—no reason at all. I’m like, ‘Why am I out here?’ 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,” she continued. “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.”

That’s when Shields said the seizure took hold, and she began “frothing at the mouth, totally blue, trying to swallow my tongue. The next thing I remember, I’m being loaded into an ambulance. I have oxygen on.”

But as the “Blue Lagoon” actress explained, the story took yet another strange turn: an attempt to reach her husband by phone failed — and instead reached one assistant, then another assistant, and then finally “Maestro” star Bradley Cooper.

“His assistant called Bradley and said, ‘Brooke’s on the ground. Chris isn’t around. Go get her.’ And he came, and somebody called the ambulance. And then it was like, I walked in with Jesus,” Shields said.

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“And Bradley f***ing Cooper is sitting next to me holding my hand,” 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. 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 that the doctors eventually attributed the seizure to low sodium — which had been exacerbated by excessive water intake — and ultimately advised her to eat more potato chips.

“Low sodium. I had had too much water. I flooded my system, and I drowned myself,” she said. “And if you don’t have enough sodium in your blood or urine or your body, you can have a seizure.”

Shields said the doctors asked whether she was intentionally limiting her salt intake to keep from retaining fluids and looking or feeling bloated, but she said that had nothing to do with it.

“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?” she 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 they were just like, ‘Eat potato chips every day.'”