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You know those people who carry around a gallon of water and claim you can never drink too much? Yes, they are misinformed. On the water, OD can actually occur, which can lead to fatigue, seizures, or even death. Brooke Shields learned this the hard way when she says she suffered a grand mal seizure after drinking too much water. “I drank all the water. I’m leaving my house. And they kept asking me, “Do you want coffee?” And I said, “No.” ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, great,'” she told Glamour. Shields then went to a restaurant and suffered a grand mal seizure (i.e. the really bad-looking seizure). “It means I’m foaming at the mouth, completely blue and trying to swallow my tongue. The next thing I remember is Ivm being loaded into an ambulance. I have oxygen,” she said. “And Bradley fucking Cooper is sitting next to me and holding my hand.”
Cooper accompanied Shields to the hospital because her husband couldn’t get there. “His assistant called Bradley and said, ‘Brooke is down.’ Chris isn’t there. “Go get her,” Shields told Glamour. So that’s what Mr. Maestro did. The Brenda Starr star had been drinking so much water because she was preparing for her Cafe Carlyle show while also recording a podcast, but doctors tried to blame Shield’s sodium deficiency on vanity. “And then male doctors kept asking me if I would limit my salt intake,” she said. “And I said, ‘You know what? I’ve had it with male doctors.'” So now Brooke Shields has to eat potato chips – on doctor’s orders – and Bradley Cooper has a story comparable to the time Werner Herzog helped Joaquin Phoenix out of his overturned car.