Alicia Silverstone is alive and well! The actress, 47, assured worried fans that she was “alive and well” in a post on Tuesday, August 20, after sharing a video on TikTok of herself eating what followers believed to be a poisonous fruit.
“Don’t worry … I didn’t swallow 😉😛,” Silverstone added in the caption as she shared a photo of herself posing lying on her front.
The Clless The update on the alum’s health status comes after she shared a snap of herself eating a previously unseen orange fruit while out for a walk in London, England.
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Alicia Silverstone eats possibly poisonous fruit, sparking concern online: ‘I don’t think you should eat this’
“I discovered something that I can’t figure out what it is and I need your help,” Silverstone explained in the video as she examined fruit with seeds she picked from someone’s garden.
“I just bit into it because it was on the street and we were talking about whether this was a tomato or not,” she continued when her fruit accidentally fell on the ground.
Silverstone then panned the camera to show the bushes growing the strange fruit behind the fence.
Alicia Silverstone with a Jerusalem cherry.
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“Definitely not because look at these leaves,” she said. “Those are leaves. So what the hell is this? Because when you open it, that’s what it looks like,” she explained, moving the camera back to the crushed fruit she dropped on the ground.
Silverstone took out another fruit and took another bite. “And if I bite into it—I don’t think you should eat this,” she said. “But it’s almost like pepper. Does anyone know what this is?”
Fans commented that the fruit was a Jerusalem cherry as they shared their concerned reactions to the video.
“Girl! berries are either awesome or fucking toxic! Don’t eat random stuff😭😭,” wrote one follower.
“Is Alicia ok??? We need an update!” Another said. Another joked: “She’s obviously clueless… 😂,” referring to the actress’ 90s film of the same name.
According to the Northern New England Poison Center, Jerusalem cherry is “harmful to eat” and consuming just a small amount of the fruit or leaves can cause “sickness in the stomach, vomiting, or diarrhea,” while larger amounts can lead to “heart beat problems “.
The Jerusalem cherry is “poisonous” because it contains a “poisonous alkaloid,” although the poison is “not life-threatening,” according to Seedling.
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