Lala Kent Details Terrifying Emergency Room Visit with Daughter Ocean as She 'Gasped for Air'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Sharing the experience on herGive Them Lalapodcast, theVanderpump Rulesstar, 32, shared that she was getting into bed after putting her daughter to bed when she heard19-month-old Oceangetting “upset” in her bedroom.

Explaining that the toddler is sleep trained, Kent said she knew Ocean’s cry meant “something’s wrong.”

“I go in and she’s like gasping for air, she cannot breathe,” Kent said, explaining that she felt reassured that the toddler was screaming because it meant she was getting air in her lungs.

“I was keeping an eye on her for what seemed like an hour which was really five minutes before I decided we’re going to the emergency room — like something’s off,” she recalled.

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“I was watching her, I tried to lay down, I was steaming the shower, [and] while it was steaming, I put her on my chest, laid in the bed and just the way she was sounding, you could tell she was having trouble breathing,” she explained. “Now I’m not f—–g around.”

Kent rushed her little girl — whom sheshares with ex Randall Emmett— to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she was put “into a room immediately.”

“I said, ‘I don’t know because I just got her back.I share custody right now. I got her at 7, I put her down. This is what I have now,’ " she continued.

“Luckily, Ocean’s lungs are developed so it is something that if you catch it quickly is very treatable.”

Kent and Emmett split in October 2021. Last December, she told PEOPLE that she would not be involving “a dude” if she decided to have more children.

source: people.com