Busy Philipps watched her daughter have a seizure on FaceTime.
The former Dawson's Creek actress' eldest child, 15-year-old Birdie — who she has with ex-husband Marc Silverstein — attends boarding school in Sweden and she was horrified having to watch her medical episode play out from so far away.
"I was just kind of like muttering to myself and then I heard Marc screaming for me and I was like, 'What does this guy want now?' 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,'" she explained on her Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best podcast. "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."
Birdie and her friend had left school to go to the cinema in Stockholm and Busy recalled how "terrifying" it was to see her "just reaching".
She continued: "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 44-year-old star praised her daughter's friend, Sarah, for taking charge of the situation.
"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 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," she added.
Busy — who also has 11-year-old Cricket with Mark — admitted it wasn't the first time she had been unable to be with Birdie when she had a seizure, as the teenager had previously collapsed when she was on set for the first day of filming 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."