Bradley Cooper was happy to be able to help his good friend Brooke Shields in her time of need.
The 48-year-old Oscar winner – who is busy promoting his film Maestro with Carey Mulligan – responded when the actress called him her ‘guardian angel’ after he came to her rescue during a terrifying attack in September.
“I was happy to be in the right place at the right time,” he said Additional at the 2023 Gotham Awards on Monday night.
Earlier this month, Brooke revealed she was hospitalized after a seizure outside a restaurant left her ‘frothing and turning blue’.
Talking about the frightening health scare for the first time GlamourBrooke said Bradley rushed to her aid and held her hand in the ambulance as she was taken to intensive care.
Bradley Cooper responded when Brooke Shields called him her ‘guardian angel’ after he came to her aid during an attack; seen with Carey Mulligan at the Gotham Awards on Monday night
Bradley said, “I was glad I was in the right place at the right time,” referring to helping Brooke Shields; seen in November
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The actress was just days away from making her debut on the Café Carlyle show when she “slumped her head against the wall” and suffered a grand mal seizure outside L’Artusi restaurant in New York.
The Blue Lagoon alum explained that the grand mal attack happened because she drank too much water before her show and had low sodium levels.
“I was waiting for an Uber. I go to the bottom of the stairs and apparently start to look funny, and [the people I was with] They were like, “Are you okay?” she told Glamour.
‘I walk into L’Artusi restaurant and go to the sommelier who has just taken an hour to watch my run-through. I go in, two women come towards me; I do not know them. Everything starts to go black.
‘Then my hands fall to my sides and my head hits the wall. I’m starting to have a grand mal seizure.
“It means foaming at the mouth, all blue, trying to swallow my tongue. The next thing I remember is being loaded into an ambulance. I’m on oxygen. And Bradley f*****g Cooper is sitting next to me holding my hand.”
Brooke said Bradley, 48, was called after the waiter at the restaurant could not reach her husband Chris Henchy. An assistant knew Bradley was in the area and the Hollywood actor headed straight to L’Artusi.
“His assistant called Bradley and said, ‘Brooke is on the floor. Chris isn’t there. Go get her.” And he came, and someone called the ambulance. And then it was like walking in with Jesus,” she said.
Brooke first opened up about the frightening health scare in November, saying Bradley rushed to her aid and held her hand in the ambulance; seen in November
Brooke revealed she was hospitalized after she was ‘frothed and turned blue’ during an attack outside a restaurant; seen in September
Brooke and Bradley have been friends for over a decade and bonded after starring together in the 2008 horror film The Midnight Meat Train; seen in 2022
Brooke described the ambulance journey as ‘surreal and strange’, with the actor telling her: ‘I’m going to the hospital with you, Brooke’.
The actress and Bradley have been friends for more than a decade and bonded after starring together in the 2008 horror film The Midnight Meat Train.
Once in intensive care, Brooke said she felt “stuck” after doctors inserted a catheter and IV.
Brooke said doctors told her she had too much water and wondered if she had cut salt out of her diet — something she vehemently denied because she wasn’t on some “crazy actress” diet.
Brooke said the doctor’s advice was to have more salt in her diet.
The actress subsequently recovered and presented her one-woman show debut on September 12.