Bradley Cooper Opens Up About Helping Brooke Shields Through Seizure: ‘Right Place, Right Time’

Mar. 15, 2025

Bradley Cooper; Brooke Shields.Photo:Bryan Bedder/Variety via Getty Images;  Mike Coppola/Getty Images

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Bradley Cooperis reflecting on being a supportive friend toBrooke Shieldsfollowing her health scare.

“I was happy to be in the right place at the right time,” Cooper toldExtraat the event.

The actress said of the incident that she went “headfirst into the wall” and started “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. And Bradley f—— Cooper is sitting next to me holding my hand,” Shields told the publication.

“I couldn’t really get any words out,” the actress continued. “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 like, ‘This is odd and surreal.’ "

Cooper and Shields previously starred in the 2008 horror filmThe Midnight Meat Traintogether and have remained friends ever since.

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In the biopic, Cooper portrays composer Leonard Bernstein opposite Mulligan, 38, who plays his wife, Felicia Montealegre, as the film chronicles the love story of the pair.

Maestrois in select theaters in November and then on Netflix Dec. 20.

source: people.com