Gerard Butler stung by Paltrow bee venom cure

GERARD BUTLER has revealed that he was admitted to hospital after trying a bee-venom therapy popularised by Gwyneth Paltrow.

The Scottish actor said he was given the therapy, which is claimed to relieve inflammation, incorrectly when he was injected with 10 times the recommended amount of venom.

Butler, 47, said on Lorraine, the ITV talk show: “I had heard of this guy injecting bee venom, because apparently it has many anti-inflammatory compounds. So, I’m like, ‘Come, come to New Orleans where we’re filming’. So, he gives me a shot, and I go, ‘Oh, that’s interesting,’ because it stings.

“Then he gives me 10 shots, and then I have the worst reaction,” he told Lorraine Kelly. “I kind of enter this anaphylactic shock. It’s awful, creepy crawlies all over me, swelled up, heart’s going to explode. But I go through it, and then I find out he gave me 10 times too much.”

He was immediately admitted to hospital, but then tried the treatment again four days later. “I decide to do it again because, I think: ‘Maybe I just took too much.’ So, he’s on the phone, and this time I have to go to the hospital [again],” he said.

Butler, who is best known for his role as Leonidas, the muscular Spartan king, in 300, said he tried the therapy to help ease aches from performing stunts on wires in a 65lb spacesuit for Geostorm, his new sci-fi thriller. In 2016, Paltrow tried out the bee sting therapy for Goop, her lifestyle tips website.