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Alicia Silverstone remerges alive after scaring fans by eating a poisonous berry
She did say anything you can do to draw attention to your mouth is good, right?
Nineties It Girl Alicia Silverstone finally put freaked-out fans’ minds at ease when she shared an update on Instagram after she disappeared from social media following eating a potentially poisonous berry on TikTok.
"Alive and well! Don't worry... I didn't swallow," Silverstone cheekily wrote on Instagram.
Yesterday, the 47-year-old Clueless star posted a TikTok video that starts with her asking viewers to help identify a mystery berry she came across while in London. You might be thinking she picked up an exotic piece of fruit at a farmer’s market, but you’d be wrong. She plucked the berry in question off of a bush inside someone’s gated front yard.
“I just bit into it because it was on the street,” Silverstone said, baffling everyone who watched.
“If I bite it — I don’t think you’re supposed to eat this — it’s almost like a pepper,” she continued while holding up the half-eaten berry in question.
A quick peek at the comment section on her video, which already had nearly two million views at the time of publication, and it’s clear she probably should have listened to her instincts and not eaten a random piece of fruit she couldn’t identify.
Many people were quick to point out that it looked like she was consuming a Jerusalem cherry — a member of the nightshade family that Poison Control has on their list of poisonous plants.
According to the National Institute of Health, ingesting the plant can cause gastrointestinal distress and may also affect the central nervous system. But Alan Franck, who manages the University of Florida Herbarium, told PRIDE that Silverstone likely doesn’t have much to worry about.
“I’m not concerned for her. I think she’ll be fine probably,” Franck said but admitted he’s not an expert on Jerusalem cherries.
Since posting the video on August 19, Silverstone hasn’t made a peep on social media, and the internet is SHOOK. While Silverstone is wildly talented, clearly these people haven’t seen the stranger side of the star that includes talking openly about pre-chewing her son’s food as though he were a baby bird, being vocally anti-vax, believing that tampons cause infertility, and endorsing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (you know, the presidential hopeful who admitted to having a brain worm and planted a dead baby cub in Central Park for, reasons?).
The viral video quickly spread from TikTok to X, where users were disturbed that the actress ate an unknown berry out of someone’s yard. “Imagine looking out your window and seeing Alicia Silverstone foraging from your bushes,” someone wrote, while another person posted, “She really is dedicated to being clueless.”
So, in case you missed it, the moral of the story is: Don’t eat random fruit you find on the street! And that we sincerely hope the actress is OK!
Alicia Silverstone could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
