Emmy Rossum Recalls Nearly Giving Birth in an Uber on the Way to the Hospital: ‘My Worst Nightmare’

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A very different birth story. Ahead of her daughter’s birthday, Emmy Rossum revealed how she almost gave birth to her child in a car.“[This is] just about my worst nightmare,” Rossum, 35, shared while cohosting Live with Kelly and Ryan on Thursday, May 19. “I gave birth almost a year ago today in New York and went into labor and took an Uber to the hospital.

My worst nightmare would be, I had this [mental] picture of my holding on [to the handle above the door] in the car with the baby coming out in the Uber.”The Shameless alum also joked about the main reason why her driver’s reaction didn’t help amid her rush to get to the hospital. “When you’re in labor and they’re driving to the hospital — I ended up getting a lovely and very conscientious Uber driver, which is not what you want when you’re in labor.

I want to go,” she said. “If it’s an orange [light], just take that as a green and go.”Rossum continued: “We were driving and we were a couple of minutes away from the hospital and I was fully in contractions and I didn’t realize I was actually nine centimeters dilated at that point, so real close.

I was basically 10 minutes away from having a child.”According to the actress, the experience almost ended very differently because of her driver’s concerns about her safety. “It had progressed very quickly,” she added. “And we were driving toward the hospital, the light was turning orange, and I was like, ‘Go, go, go, go!’ And he was like, ‘We’re just going to hit the brake and stop here.