Brooke Shields thought she died after waking up next to Bradley Cooper in an ambulance

Brooke Shields has opened up about what she thought was a near-death experience.

The actress recalled on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon a time when she had a medical emergency that led to a bizarre guest in her ambulance.

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The 59-year-old shared a story of how she was preparing for her cabaret shows at Café Carlyle in Manhattan when the incident occurred.

”I was drinking a lot of water, and I drank too much water and I had a seizure,” she shared with the shocked audience.

“It was a grand mal seizure where I was literally frothing at the mouth and, like, turning purple. And that’s all I remember,

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“And then I woke up in the ambulance, and Bradley Cooper was holding my hand,” she said.

“I looked at him, and he said, ‘I’m gonna go to the emergency room with you, Brooke’, and I was like, ‘I guess I didn’t make it’,” she joked, with the audience and Fallon reacting in laughter before she continued, “I’m like, ‘I’m okay with that.'”

“That’s so funny,” said Fallon, “There you go, this is how it ends. That’s heaven. Absolutely.”

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Shields first revealed the anecdote in her new memoir, titled Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old.

She opened up this week about what inspired her to write it in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times

“I was doing an Instagram Live and people were saying, ‘I really wish you looked like you used to’,” she told the publication, as well as Kelly Clarkson on her eponymous talk show.

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Shields has previously written books centered on her postpartum depression and her complicated relationship with her mother, but she said writing this memoir was uncharted territory for her.

It began as a suggestion from her agent, but she wasn’t entirely sure it was a project she wanted to take on.

“But as I was thinking about it, it’s indicative of age to feel this desire and need to look at where I am in my life and look back differently, but don’t stay looking back,” she explained.

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She decided to write the book simply because she believed that rather than reflecting negatively on ageing, she could instead make it “funny, irreverent, silly but truthful and have it be positive for women, instead of what we’re taught to fear about age.”

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