Bradley Cooper Opens Up About Helping Brooke Shields Through Seizure: ‘Right Place, Right Time’
Shields, 58, suffered a generalized seizure in September
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Bradley Cooper; Brooke ShieldsBradley Cooper is reflecting on being a supportive friend to Brooke Shields following her health scare.
The Maestro star, 48, reacted to Shields, 58, calling him her “guardian angel” at the 2023 Gotham Awards on Monday night, after the actress revealed that he was by her side when she suffered a generalized seizure in September.
“I was happy to be in the right place at the right time,” Cooper told Extra at the event.
Earlier this month, Shields revealed in a Glamour interview that Cooper sat with her in the ambulance after she suffered a generalized seizure before performing her one-woman show, Previously Owned by Brooke Shields in N.Y.C. at the famous Café Carlyle restaurant.
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 film The Midnight Meat Train together and have remained friends ever since.
Cooper was joined on the carpet at the Gotham Awards by his Maestro costar Carey Mulligan. The actor, who also co-wrote and directed the film, was honored at the event with the Gotham Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute.
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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.
Maestro is in select theaters in November and then on Netflix Dec. 20.
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