Busy Philipps Reveals Birdie, 15, Had 'Terrifying' Seizure at School in Sweden as She Watched over FaceTime

The actress shares Birdie and Cricket, 10, with ex Marc Silverstein

Busy Philipps is recounting a scary experience she had with her teenager.

On her podcast Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best, the actress, 44, shared that her 15-year-old Birdie had a seizure over the weekend, which Philipps saw over FaceTime as Birdie attends boarding school in Sweden. Philipps shares Birdie and Cricket, 11, with ex-husband Marc Silverstein, 52.

"I was just kind of like muttering to myself and then I heard Marc screaming for me and I was like, 'What does this f---ing guy want now?'" Philipps begins. "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.'"

Getting emotional, the star then says she doesn't know if she actually wants to talk about what happened before composing herself.

"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 like, hooking her up with stuff and on FaceTime," the mom of two says.

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"I feel stuck. My therapist yesterday said, she was like 'You sound like you're disassociating.' And I understand because I feel like this year has, I don't understand what's happening. I feel stuck in a f---ing movie, in a way that's not even disassociating, just like I keep getting put in different movies. And I just want to be in mine, like my life again. Like my movie, where it's OK."

Sharing that Birdie had journeyed from her boarding school to Stockholm to see the new Hunger Games movie with a friend, Philipps says it was "terrifying to see how she was and she was just reaching."

"Her 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."

"She was reaching toward the camera and just saying like, calling out for me. Just saying, 'Mama. Mama. Mama. Where are you? Mama.'"

The first time Birdie had a seizure, the actress was on set for the first day of her upcoming movie, Mean Girls.

"And I couldn't, obviously I couldn't leave set. And Marc had run to the school and had gotten there at the same time as the paramedics so he had seen her in this, similar sort of thing before. But it was really awful seeing it on a screen, being in a different country across an ocean."

Birdie's friend Sarah had witnessed the entire episode, handling the emergency like a professional.

"So they'd gone to the movies in Stockholm. It's actually amazing that they were there because their school is far...and there's not a hospital where their school is. So they'd gone into Stockholm so they were literally two minutes from the children's hospital," Philipps explains.

"The paramedics were there almost immediately, I guess. And Birdie's friend Sarah, shout out Sarah, literally, I don't even understand. She's 17 but this girl managed to get one person to go tell the theater, to shut it the f--- down, she got two guys that they obviously didn't know that were sitting behind, because Birdie started choking and throwing up, to move Birdie gently to the ground and put her on her side. She got someone else to call the Swedish 911."

Sarah then got someone else to call the paramedics and called their boarding school herself, contacting the house parent of their dorm and getting Birdie's parents' phone numbers. Philipps, meanwhile, said that she was trying to figure out a way to get to Sweden.

"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?' I was like, How do I not know anyone with a f---ing private plane. I got to hang out with fancier people. Would Taylor Swift fly me to Sweden right now? Who knows Taylor Swift?"

Later in the podcast, the mom of two recalled a chaotic moment the family of four shared while getting Birdie's things from school. Remembering that Birdie was exhausted after saying goodbye to her friends, Philipps says that her daughter was not in a good mood.

"She was being so mean and I wasn't handling it well and I was really stressed out, obviously. And Marc and I weren't getting along. And I fell, I slipped on ice. And fell, and the kids were laughing at me."

"And I was like, 'I hope you have a daughter someday that's as mean to you as you've been to me.' And then Birdie is like screaming, 'I just had a seizure.' And then Marc was treating us both like we were his teenagers. And then I was like, you're the most unhelpful and I was really mean to him."

Later, when Philipps went to relax in a sauna, she got several calls from her ex-husband.

"And Marc was calling me and I was like, 'What do you f---ing want?' And he's like, 'Cricket just got her first period.'"

"And I got dressed really quickly and ran back across the courtyard to where their room was and went and saw the little buddy and [she] was kind of a little freaked out."

"And then I went up and told Birdie and Birdie's like, 'Oh no! She should come up here.' So we brought her up to our room and we gave her a bath and since I had just packed Birdie's stuff at school, so I knew that she had clean period underwear and I was like, 'Well thank God for that.'"

After the episode aired, Philipps posted a series of photos to her Instagram that documented her daughter's time in the hospital, writing a lengthy caption about the experience.

"There wasn’t a new podcast last week because I was focused on getting through the week. But we’re back today and we go through most of the past week and a half in both our lives, per usual," she began.

"And I explain all the things that happened and try to get through it. Birdie is fine. I am fine. We are all going to be okay. But it’s been a time. and a year."

"And then, i saw that Charles Bukowski poem this morning (it’s the last slide) and remembered it from Hoffman and it’s exactly it, i think? I’d 1-10 these but honestly- if you listen to the pod you will probably get it. Even if you don’t. Either way, I love you," she ended the post.

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