Busy Philipps is recalling the harrowing second that she witnessed her eldest daughter, Birdie, have a seizure over FaceTime.
Philipps, 44, detailed her kid’s well being scare all the way through the Wednesday, December 13, episode of her “Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best” podcast, noting she picked up a FaceTime name from 15-year-old Birdie, who lately attends a boarding faculty in Sweden, previous this month.
“I was just kind of like muttering to myself and then I heard Marc [Silverstein] screaming for me and I was like, ‘What does this f–king guy want now?’” the actress stated on Wednesday, referring to her ex-husband. “And I went upstairs but then I heard his voice and I knew something was really wrong. And he just said, ‘It’s Birdie, it’s Birdie. She’s had another seizure. The paramedics are on the phone.’”
Philipps — who additionally stocks daughter Cricket, 10, with Silverstein, 52 — joined her ex in entrance of the digicam, the place they noticed paramedics tending to Birdie.
“She had just come out of the seizure and she was still in the post-aura state. They were like, hooking her up with stuff,” Philipps recalled. “[Birdie’s] friend who was with her, she was holding the phone so she was kind of, it was like this weird medium shot. So you could see everything that was happening. So it felt, it was just so weird.”
The Girls5Eva superstar famous that Birdie, who just lately began the use of she/her pronouns once more, used to be gesturing for the digicam and calling out for “Mama.”
“It was really awful seeing it on a screen, being in a different country across an ocean,” she added, noting that Birdie in the past suffered a seizure whilst Philipps used to be operating on the movie adaptation of the Imply Women musical.
Birdie’s buddy Sarah had spotted the teenager choking and vomiting once they went to look a film in Stockholm, a number of hours clear of their faculty. A fellow moviegoer known as paramedics instantly, who hastily arrived at the scene to offer assist. Whilst Sarah used to be seeking to get in contact with the varsity and their dorm area father or mother, Philipps used to be eager about touring in a foreign country on the earliest probability.
“I was literally googling private planes. I was like, ‘How much does it cost? $100,000? Can I put that on a credit card? How does that work?’” she stated. “I used to be like,
‘How do I not know anyone with a f—king private plane? I got to hang out with fancier people. Would Taylor Swift fly me to Sweden right now? Who knows Taylor Swift?’”
Philipps in the end made it to Birdie’s bedside after she used to be taken to an area health facility, sharing Instagram pictures from the ordeal on Wednesday.
“Birdie is fine. I am fine. We are all going to be OK,” Philipps captioned her put up partly. “But it’s been a time. And a year.”