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Kate Beckinsale Candidly Details Her 6-Week Hospitalization: 'Grief Had Burned a Hole in My Oesophagus'

Kate Beckinsale did not mince words at she clapped back at a critic while explaining the health struggles she recently suffered.

"No, actually, I watched my stepfather die quite shockingly, my mother has stage 4 cancer, and I lost a lot of weight from stress and grief, quite quickly," Beckinsale fired back, "and then I was in hospital for six weeks because the grief had burned a hole in my oesophagus which made me vomit copious amounts of blood, and I found eating very hard and I just worked very very hard on a movie that was actually quite triggering because it also involved the theme of the death of my father so l'm not really concerned about what you think about my a**." The comments came on a video Beckinsale posted on Monday, in which she stood in front of a mirror putting on a hair net while wearing a pink off-the-shoulder top and matching bottoms that appeared to be underwear. "The fact that one of the major things I am bullied about is an assumption that I can't handle the idea of getting older is so deeply ironic when my all consuming terror was that I never thought I'd even see the end of my 20s."

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