Kyra Sedgwick Reveals Very Specific Phobia That Led Husband Kevin Bacon to Reject a Job

The phobia makes her 'sick' to her stomach.

Kyra Sedgwick is getting real about her very specific phobia that you probably didn't know existed.

The Closer star, 57, sat down with her husband, Kevin Bacon on The Late Late Show With James Corden where she opened up about her phobia that caused the Footloose star, 64, to reject a gig. 

When asked if either of them advise each other to not book certain roles, Sedgwick was quick to respond that she has absolutely given her opinion on one certain gig that Bacon was offered in the past. 

"He was asked to play a dancing, singing M&M," she said to which Corden clarified, "The candy, not the rapper." 

"The candy," Sedgwick stated, adding, "I have a thing with moving, talking food. I have a serious issue with this."

"It makes me sick to my stomach when I see commercials where the Oreo slides down the cream slide. Just the cookie part or any anthropomorphizing of food," she said.

"Like if there's a talking hot dog," Corden said.

"Exactly!" Sedgwick responded with a scoff as she appeared disgusted by the mention of it. 

Bacon chimed in, asking his wife of 35 years how she feels about the Pillsbury Doughboy. Her answer? "So bad."

Although, Sedgwick did note, "But he's not really a food."

"He's a big mound of dough," Bacon quipped.

Nonetheless, Sedgwick isn't alone in her phobia. She revealed that she once looked up her fear on Wikipedia, which confirmed that some have a genuine fear of food looking like people.

And we have a Late Late Show producer to thank for the name, as they informed Corden that it's called, "Cibolaliophobia."

"I had no idea I married a Cibolaliophobian," Bacon quipped.

Today.com caught up with professor and chair of the psychology department at Toronto Metropolitan University, Martin Antony, Ph.D., who revealed he has never heard of the phobia.

"I have never heard of anyone with this fear, and I have never seen it documented in the literature (there is no information out there on its prevalence, for example)," he said in an email. 

Perhaps Sedgwick would be open to a medical study? Only time will tell.