Blythe Danner leaves Hamptons charity event by ambulance, daughter Gwyneth Paltrow says she’s ‘fine’

Blythe Danner, 81, is “perfectly fine” after leaving a charity event in an ambulance.

A source told PEOPLE on Monday that the incident occurred while Danner, the mother of Gwyneth Paltrow, 51, was attending the Springs Food Pantry’s EAT at the Hidden Gardens 2024 event at the Corbett Estate in East Hampton, New York, on Saturday.

The event honored the actor’s wife John Slattery (“Mad Men”) and Talia Balsam (who was also on “Mad Men” and was briefly married to George Clooney before Slattery).

“It was early in the event and he sat there for a while as they took his vitals,” the source told the outlet about Danner.

“It didn’t look bad, but they took him anyway.”

A rep for Paltrow told the outlet that the Goop founder’s mother is “perfectly fine” after the unspecified incident.

Danner, who has been nominated for Emmys and Tonys, is the mother of Gwyneth and Jake Paltrow, 48, with her late husband Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002.

She has appeared in popular films and shows such as “Will and Grace,” “To Wang Fu,” “Forces of Nature,” and received a Tony Award nomination in 1988 for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

In 2018, Danner was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a form of oral cancer that often develops in the salivary glands.

It was the same cancer that killed her late husband.

“Everyone gets cancer at some point, but it’s unusual for a couple to have the same cancer,” Danner told People in 2022.

“I remember looking up at the sky and saying to Bruce, ‘Are you alone up there?’ ” he recalls, adding that, “It’s an insidious disease. But I am well and good now. And I am lucky to be alive.”

Danner also said she kept her diagnosis from her children for a while.

“I wanted to move on as a mother, and I didn’t want them to worry,” she explained.

When Gwyneth found out about her mother’s cancer, she said she was “very shocked”.

“It was scary. And it felt really wonderful because it was the same [to my dad’s],” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” star told the outlet.

“He went through it with so much grace. I was amazed at how strong he could be.

The Post has reached out to reps for Danner and Paltrow for comment.

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