The actress recalled putting production on pause for two weeks while she underwent emergency surgery due to her “embryonic sac ruptur[ing] in [her] fallopian tube.”
Eve wrote, “I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself.
“If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time,” she continued. “In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set.”
The Grammy winner went on to describe the weight she lost after the procedure, calling herself “frail” and “in denial.”
She added, “Sometimes I did whatever it took to show up and get the job done … even if it was to my own detriment. For years, I never grieved losing my first baby. I didn’t know how to, but I eventually learned.”
Eventually, Eve began to “speak to that baby and acknowledge their existence,” in addition to forgiving herself.
“I had to … know that what had happened wasn’t my fault, that I deserved to be a mother, and that I was ready to bring a baby into this world down here,” she wrote.
While the former “Talk” co-host has never spoken publicly about her pregnancy loss, she did tell her husband, Maximillion Cooper, “when [they] got close.”
Before the infant’s 2022 arrival, the Daytime Emmy nominee struggled to conceive — which she told People left her questioning herself and her “body, the universe, God, so many things.”
Her memoir hits shelves Sept. 17.
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