Rumer Willis has revealed she ended up in the ER with dehydration and heat exhaustion after becoming unwell shooting a Western in 110 F heat.
The actress—daughter of Hollywood legends Bruce Willis and Demi Moore—was filming the movie Trail Of Vengeance during the summer in Arkansas as temperatures soared. After working in a "tiny, tiny little room" and "not drinking enough water," she became dehydrated.
She was hospitalized and had to spend the night apart from Louetta, her one-year-old daughter with singer Derek Richard Thomas—but luckily her own childhood nanny came to the rescue.
Willis opened up on The Glamour & Grit podcast, where her co-star Eric Nelsen said it had been 110 F as they shot the film. "I think the hardest part was, I was not prepared for the heat," said the actor
"The first day on set I ended up in the ER because I had dehydration and heat exhaustion. Because we were in this tiny, tiny little room and just not drinking enough water."
Laughing, she added: "And I had seen Eric roll up with this like, massive water bottle... I was like, this is a big old jug!"
"I had no idea what we were walking into, in the middle of summer in Arkansas," said the star.
Willis, 36, said it was the first time that she had taken Louetta with her while shooting a movie. But after she suffered dehydration, her former nanny stepped in.
"That was the first night that I think I ever slept away from her," she explained. "Because thankfully, my nanny when I was a little girl, Madison, came to help me while I was shooting. Thank God, because she raised me in a lot of ways and I trust her so much with Louetta. She was like, 'I am going to take her tonight so you can sleep.'"
"It was wild," she went on. "That balance of going, 'OK how do I take care of myself so I can take care of her and also show up for this job?' That was a kind of interesting balance and you get all of that kind of mom guilt and, 'Am I doing the right things?'
"But I knew that she was being taken care of and she would come to visit pretty much every day and hang out and come see all of us."
Trail of Vengeance, which was formerly known as Broken Trail, is set in the 1800s and tells the story of a widow whose life is turned upside down when her husband is murdered. It also features Jeremy Sumpter, Jeff Fahey, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Graham Greene.
Newsweek has emailed Willis for comment.
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