Busy Philipps recalls the “terrifying” moment she watched her 15-year-old daughter Birdie have a seizure over FaceTime while she was at boarding school in Sweden

Busy Philipps has told of the “terrifying” moment she witnessed her daughter Birdie having a seizure over FaceTime while she was at boarding school in Sweden.

The actress made the shocking revelation on her podcast, saying it happened over the weekend while she and Birdie's father Marc Silverstein were nearly 4,000 miles away in New York City.

“I was just mumbling to myself and then I heard Marc screaming for me and I thought, 'What does this damn guy want now?'” an emotional Philipps recalled.

She continued, “And I went upstairs, but then I heard his voice and I knew something was really wrong.” And he just said, it's Birdie, it's Birdie. She had another seizure. “The paramedics are on the phone.”

This is the second seizure for Birdie – who no longer uses the pronouns they/them – as she also had an outburst in March while Philipps was filming the movie musical “Mean Girls” in New Jersey.

Busy Philipps has told of the “terrifying” moment she witnessed her daughter Birdie having a seizure over FaceTime while she was at boarding school in Sweden

“The paramedics were on FaceTime and she had just come out of the seizure and was still in a post-aura state,” the White Chicks star explained.

“They wanted to connect them to stuff and FaceTime.”

Philipps felt helpless as Birdie screamed for her.

“It was frightening to see how she was doing and she was just reaching forward,” she added.

Luckily, the teenager was in the company of a friend with whom she had traveled to Stockholm to see the Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, in a cinema.

“Her friend who was with her, she was holding the phone, so it was like, it was like this weird medium shot. So you could see everything that was happening. “It just felt so weird,” Philipps said.

'[Birdie] I reached out to the camera and just said, “I called for myself.” I just say, “Mom. Mummy. Mummy. Where are you? Mummy.”

Philipps said it was the girls' decision to drive to Stockholm that day that put them near a hospital.

“So they went to the cinema in Stockholm.” It's actually amazing that they were there because their school is far away… and there is no hospital where their school is. “So they had driven to Stockholm, so they were literally two minutes from the children's hospital,” she told her listeners.

This allowed paramedics to reach Birdie in record time.

The actress made the shocking revelation on her podcast, saying it happened over the weekend while she and Birdie's father Marc Silverstein (pictured in 2018) were nearly 4,000 miles away in New York City.

“I was just mumbling to myself and then I heard Marc screaming for me and I thought, 'What does this damn guy want now?'” an emotional Philipps recalled; seen in November

“I guess the paramedics were there almost immediately. “And Birdie's friend Sarah, Sarah screams, literally, I don't even understand it,” she continued.

Philipps praised Sarah for her quick thinking and the effort she made to get Birdie help.

“She's 17 but this girl managed to get one person to tell the theater to shut the hell down, she has two guys she obviously didn't know were sitting in the back because Birdie started choking and vomiting.” to gently move Birdie to the ground and lay her on her side.'

Sarah “got someone else to call Swedish emergency number 911” while she contacted the school to get the contact information for Birdie's parents.

Meanwhile, Philipps said she was desperately looking for a way to get to her daughter – and was even considering taking a private jet.

“I literally googled private planes. I asked myself, “How much does it cost?” $100,000? Can I put this on a credit card? How does this work?”

“I thought, ‘How do I not know anyone with a damn private plane?’ I got to hang out with fancier people.

'Would Taylor Swift fly me to Sweden now?' Who knows Taylor Swift?'

This is the second seizure for Birdie – who no longer uses the pronouns they/them – as she also had an outburst in March while Philipps was filming the movie musical “Mean Girls” in New Jersey; seen in 2022

Philipps said she was desperately looking for a way to get to her daughter – even considering taking a private jet

Swift famously owns a $40 million Dassault Falco, which she often lends to her close friends and family.

Philipps recalled the panic she felt when Birdie suffered her first seizure in March, and how distance also played a role.

'[When it happened] I couldn't, obviously I couldn't walk [the Mean Girls] discontinued,” she said.

Birdie hadn't gone to college yet and was still living with her parents in New York, so it was easy for her father, Marc, to rush to her side.

She continued: “And Marc had walked to the school and got there at the same time as the paramedics, so he had seen her in something similar before.”

'But [this time] It was really terrible to see it on screen, to be in another country across the ocean.”

Earlier in the episode, she admitted that she feels “stuck” and spoke to her therapist on Tuesday about the toll this year has taken on her mental health.

“I feel stuck. My therapist said yesterday, “You sound like you're distancing yourself.” And I understand that because I feel like I don't understand what's happening this year. I feel like I'm stuck in an af****** movie in a way that doesn't even distance me, the way I keep getting sucked into other movies.

“And I just want to be back in my, my life. Like my movie, where it's okay.”

'[Birdie] “I grabbed the camera and just said it was calling for me,” she remembers. “I just say, ‘Mom. Mummy. Mummy. Where are you? Mummy””

Philipps and Silverstein separated last year but appear to continue to live under the same roof; seen in 2019

She and Silverstein also share 11-year-old daughter Cricket

It is unclear whether Birdie has been officially diagnosed with epilepsy.

According to the Mayo Clinic, doctors typically diagnose patients with the condition if they have had “at least two unprovoked seizures at least 24 hours apart.”

Philipps and Silverstein sent their oldest child off to college in August and the actress admitted she was still “trying to process that.”

She and Silverstein – who split last year but apparently continued to live under the same roof – also share 11-year-old daughter Cricket.

The Freaks and Geeks star and the screenwriter have yet to officially divorce.