Gayle King Shares Why Robert De Niro’s Girlfriend Tiffany Chen Was Upset By Headlines About Her
14.07.2023 - 15:19
/ etcanada.com
Gayle King is sharing her perspective on her recent interview with Robert De Niro‘s girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, who opened up to the broadcast journalist about the scary postpartum complication she endured after giving birth to the 79-year-old Oscar-winning actor’s seventh child.
On Thursday, “CBS Mornings” shared a preview clip of King’s interview with Chen, where the 45-year-old reveals that she developed Bell’s palsy, a medical condition that causes facial paralysis, after welcoming her and De Niro’s daughter, Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro, in April.
According to the Mayo Clinic, Bell’s palsy is “a condition that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face. In most cases, the weakness is temporary and significantly improves over weeks. The weakness makes half of the face appear to droop. Smiles are one-sided, and the eye on the affected side resists closing.” The exact cause is unknown.
“When I went home, I started to feel like my tongue felt strange. It felt a little tingly, just starting to get a little bit numb, and then I realized my face just felt weird,” Chen tells King in the preview. “I didn’t know what the feeling I was having, it just felt weird.”
The new mother adds that she could see a difference in her face at the time, saying, “Everything was starting to fall down on itself, like, my face was melting on itself. A week after giving birth, that was when it all hit, and I called my doctor. I was trying to eat. I went to put a fork of food in my mouth and everything came out. I couldn’t eat. And I was starting to slur. So I said, ‘There’s something really going on here.’ They said, ‘Go right to the hospital.’ [They] admitted me, and I lost all facial function the minute I got into the hospital.”