Penn Badgley reveals moving secrets about the difficult first weeks of her life. The American actor needed the permanent assistance of his mother, who had to resuscitate him several times a day.
Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl, revealed than his heart and lungs stopped regularly. The 36-year-old actor was born prematurely, 2 months premature, and spent long weeks in neonatal intensive care unit. On the podcast HypochondriActorPenn Badgley opens up about how his mother had to resuscitate daily. “The first two weeks I was in a neonatal intensive care unit because my heart and lungs were stopping repeatedly All day long “, revealed the American actor with emotions in the podcast.
When Penn Badgley, now 36, was still in the hospital when he was a baby, it was the doctors who were in charge of resuscitating him. When the latter judged that it was sufficiently recovered, they sent him home. At home, his health problems weren’t really finished yet. ” [Ma mère a dû me réanimer] several times a day because my heart and lungs stoppedand I was plugged into a monitor that was beeping very loudly“, says the actor of gossip girlcited by DailyMail.
Penn Badgley: Human contact saved the American actor
The star of the Netflix phenomenon YOU also confided that the first time his mother had to resuscitate him alone was on his way home from NICU. To wake him up, he often says, all that was needed was human contact. “Simple human touch woke me up“, mentions Penn Badgley before specifying that his health problem has deeply affected over the years. “Whenever someone touches me, I’m very aware of it“, explains the actor. Father of a 2 year old boy named James, Penn Badgley admits that the health problem he went through when he was still a baby shaped his conception of “what is life, of what she is not“.
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Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley has revealed that his heart and lungs stop regularly.
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Penn Badgley walks in New York on November 3, 2013.
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The 36-year-old actor was born prematurely and spent long weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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On the HypocondriActor podcast, Penn Badgley confides in how his mother had to resuscitate him daily.
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“The first two weeks I was in a neonatal intensive care unit because my heart and lungs were repeatedly stopping throughout the day,” he emotionally revealed in the podcast.
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When Penn Badgley, 36, was still in the hospital as a baby, it was the doctors who were in charge of resuscitating him.
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When the latter judged that he had sufficiently recovered, they sent him home.
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At home, her health problems were not really over yet. ” [Ma mère a dû me réanimer] several times a day because my heart and lungs were stopping, and I was hooked up to a monitor that was beeping really loudly,” the Gossip Girl actor told the Daily Mail.
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The Netflix YOU star also shared that the first time his mum had to resuscitate him alone was on his way home from NICU.
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To wake him up, he often says, all that is needed is human contact.