Kim Basinger Details Her Struggles With Agoraphobia: 'I Wouldn't Leave The House'

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Kim Basinger is opening up about her struggles with agoraphobia. The 68-year-old actress and her daughter, Ireland Baldwin, will make an appearance on Facebook’s Red Table Talk this week, where they both opened up about their mental health. Click inside to read more… In a sneak peek via People, Kim explained that agoraphobia took up so much of her life that she was afraid to do anything and had to re-learn some basic things.

She revealed that it was “really horrible” to battle the condition “as fiercely as I did during those years and not know what it was.” “I wouldn’t leave the house.

I would no longer go to dinner,” Kim added. She continued, saying that her experience with agoraphobia was “like something just completely shuts down within you and you have to relearn everything.” “I had to relearn to drive, and for many years I would not go through the tunnels at Malibu,” Kim says. “Everything used to make me nervous, like the glass [sliding] to open the door, or, ‘Where do I step to open the door?’ Everything became a big job to figure out how to do it.” “You live with a dry mouth all the time, you’re very shaky, you’re just so exhausted all the time.” Kim and Ireland‘s Red Table Talk episode will air Wednesday, April 27, on Facebook.