Kim Basinger explains her agoraphobia: 'Something just completely shuts down within you'
foxnews.comKim Basinger and daughter Ireland Baldwin are getting real about their experiences with anxiety. Ireland and Basinger appeared on Wednesday's episode of "Red Table Talk," where they both discussed their struggles with anxiety in Basinger's first public interview in years.
Basinger began by talking about her experience suffering from agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is a "type of anxiety disorder in which you fear and avoid places or situations that might cause you to panic and make you feel trapped, helpless or embarrassed," according to the Mayo clinic. "I wouldn't leave the house," she explained. "I would no longer go to dinner.
I could not even have people for dinner. We tried that." Ireland Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Red Table Talk (Jordan Fisher and Huy Doan via Red Table Talk/Facebook Watch) "It's like something just completely shuts down within you, and you have to relearn everything," Basinger said, noting that she spent six months in a treatment facility at the time. "I had to relearn to drive.
And for many years I would not go through the tunnels in Malibu. Everything used to make me nervous." The "L.A. Confidential" actress suffered from anxiety starting at a young age as she watched her mother mentally struggle during her childhood.
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