Baldwin shares fear of her heartbeat
Model Ireland Baldwin discussed her anxieties with Willow Smith on the most recent episode of “Red Table Talk” on Facebook Live.
“I suffer from cardiophobia. And you’re like, ‘What is that?’ ” Baldwin, 26, told Smith, 21, who admitted she didn’t know. “I didn’t know either until I did a lot of research for a very long time. I have a fear of my own heartbeat.
“When (my heartbeat) starts getting really fast, even when I’m nervous, even slightly nervous, or if I exercise or anything, I start panicking to the point where I’m convinced, no matter what anyone says, that I’m gonna have a heart attack.”
At that point, she has to go to the hospital — and has done so more than 20 times so far. The doctor will “basically come in and tell me that my heart’s fine and my health is great and that would be this huge release for me, this comfort,” she said. “Seeing an EKG monitor tell me that my heart’s OK.”
As for what might have set off this particular phobia, Baldwin noted that when she was a kid, she saw a stranger have a heart attack at a restaurant. “That messed me up,” she said. “I think that image never left my head, ever.”
She also thinks her anxieties started during the ugly divorce of her parents, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, when she was a toddler.
In the rest of Monday’s “Red Table Talk” episode, Basinger joined the conversation with her daughter, along with Jada Pinkett Smith and Pinkett Smith’s mother, Adrienne “Gammy” Banfield-Norris.
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On Wednesday, Scott was announced as a headliner for a series of upcoming Primavera Sound festivals in South America. He’ll first perform in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 6 — a year and a day since the tragic events of Astroworld. He’s slated to follow that up with performances in Argentina and Chile on Nov. 12 and 13. Actor Tsang dies: Veteran Hong Kong actor Kenneth Tsang has died while in a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in the southern Chinese city, local media reported. Tsang was best known internationally for his action roles in the 2002 James Bond film “Die Another Day,” John Woo’s “The Killer” in 1989, “Rush Hour 2” in 2001 and 1998’s “The Replacement Killers.”
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Tsang had been undergoing seven days of quarantine after returning from Singapore on Monday and was found collapsed in his hotel room Wednesday, according to the South China Morning Post and other media. The South China Morning Post said Tsang was 87 but other sources gave his age as 86.
No cause of death was given, and the paper said he had tested negative for the virus and had no underlying medical conditions.
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