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Kate Beckinsale brought a timeless story to Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday, November 24th.
When Beckinsale, 52, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to promote her new action movie Wildcat, she stopped discussing the film to make the wild claim that her 26-year-old daughter Lily Sheen’s boyfriend had naturally laid two eggs in recent months.
The topic of apparently having a baby came up recently when she opened up about her family going through a difficult time. Her mother, Judy Law, died of cancer in July at the age of 78, and her stepfather, Roy Battersby, passed away in January 2024 at the age of 87.
Beckinsale said of Sheen’s boyfriend: “We’ve had a rough time the last few years. Both of our parents died in the last few years, and he was literally the only silver lining.” “He laid two eggs in one week, so that was the bright spot.”
When Kimmel, 58, asked Beckinsale to reveal who had laid the eggs, she said her daughter’s boyfriend had laid them and claimed that she had laid them “with the shell and yolk on” from her own body. “After he went to the bathroom, he realized he had laid an egg and was very surprised,” Ms Beckinsale said. “I got really involved in this because everything was so bad that I really needed a distraction.”
According to Beckinsale, Sheen’s boyfriend (she shares a daughter with ex Michael Sheen) was “really scared” when it first happened. She described the eggs she laid as “hard-boiled eggs, like they were being cooked inside my body.”
A representative for Beckinsale declined to comment on the actress’ anecdote.
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“At first, I was like, ‘This is a little bit dramatized, obviously he can’t do it, that’s not going to happen.'” Also, there was a lot going on in the family, so I was like, whatever, my boyfriend laid eggs,” Beckinsale added during an interview with Kimmel. “And then a week later, my daughter was flying back to New York. She was back in New York, and I got an email saying, ‘Oh my god, it happened again. It’s really crazy now.’ My daughter is allergic to nuts, so we’ve had a few emergencies, but this one was worse than any nut emergency.”
When Kimmel asked Beckinsale if she believed Sheen’s boyfriend’s claims, she replied, “I did because I was so scared of him.”
“I said to him, ‘Is this some kind of attention-seeking thing, putting an egg in your butt?’ I think it’s pretty difficult to put an egg in your butt and pick it up whole without damaging it, but I think that’s the art,” she said. However, the second time this happened, her daughter sent her a photo and showed it to Kimmel and his buddy Guillermo Rodriguez.
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“What the hell?” Kimmel said in response to a photo of Beckinsale that she did not show to the audience or television cameras. “Your daughter’s boyfriend is the Easter Bunny!”
Beckinsale did not provide any further information about the eggs that were apparently laid, but said that when she contacted several doctors about the matter, “all of them basically said it was some kind of complicated masturbation thing, and it wasn’t.”
“So this is my favorite thing he’s ever done and I just love him so much. But it’s been a while and I’m ready for the next thing,” she added.
“Wildcat” is currently in theaters.
