Busy Philipps lately had a name no guardian needs. The 44-year-old actress and mom of two spoke a couple of latest scary state of affairs involving her 15-year-old daughter, Birdie, on her podcast, Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Finest.
Philipps shared that she heard her estranged husband, Marc Silverstein, “screaming for me” of their shared dwelling.
“I heard his voice and I knew something was really wrong,” the Freaks and Geeks star recalled. “He just said, ‘It’s Birdie, it’s Birdie. She’s having another seizure. The paramedics are on the phone.'”
Philipps was very emotional discussing the “terrifying” state of affairs, even saying she wasn’t positive she’d be capable to talk about the seizure.
Noting, “she’s OK,” Philipps revealed that she noticed the entire thing unfold over FaceTime.
Birdie was at boarding college in Sweden when the seizure occurred.
“The paramedics were on FaceTime, and she had just come out of the seizure and she was still in the post-aura state. They were hooking her up with stuff and on FaceTime,” Philipps mentioned. “It was terrifying to see how she was… You could see everything that was happening so it was just weird. She was reaching toward the camera and just calling out for me, just saying, ‘Mama, Mama, where are you? Mama.’ And it was chaotic and the paramedics were talking to us the whole time and asking us questions.”
She mentioned that Birdie and a good friend had been at a film when she started “choking and throwing up” from the seizure.
“It was really awful seeing it on a screen and being in a different country across an ocean,” Philipps mentioned of the expertise.
She, Marc, and their daughter, Cricket, all flew to Sweden to be with Birdie and finally deliver her again dwelling.
“She was super sore, so sore, her body was in so much pain,” Philipps mentioned of her daughter after the seizure. “She had such a terrible headache… She was just so sleepy too, she was just so tired.”
Following the hectic ordeal, Philipps talked about in search of medical recommendation, operating assessments and her daughter’s future plans, “He feels like she can go back to school, which she wants to do.”
Philipps additionally spoke about her personal psychological state after talking to her therapist, saying, “I feel stuck. I feel like this year, I don’t understand what’s happening. I feel stuck in a f**king movie in a way that’s not even disassociated, but literally like I keep getting put in different movies. I just want to be in mine. Like, my life again.”
An emotional Philipps teared up, noting that it has been a troublesome yr for her.
“It’s been a bad year,” she shared. “I don’t think I’ve had a year where it’s been this relentless.”
Philipps took to her Instagram to share a snapshot into Birdie’s time within the hospital.
“Birdie is fine. I am fine. We are all going to be OK,” she wrote. “But it’s been a time. and a year.”
Birdie graduated center college earlier this yr and Philipps introduced that her eldest daughter was heading overseas for boarding college.
Again in August, Philipps admitted that she didn’t initially need Birdie to go overseas for boarding college.
“[I’m] still in the process of dealing with it myself as a mom who, of course, just wants my babies to stay close to me,” Philipps instructed Individuals. “But I feel confident like Birdie’s such a strong individual. She’s such a smart, unique person that I feel really confident in her ability to succeed in whatever situation she’s in.”
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