
Kirsten Dunst has been candid about the terrifying health emergency her four-year-old son suffered earlier this year.
The event occurred while the family was in Budapest and, as fans will know, the spider man The actress shares sons Ennis, 7, and James, 4, with her husband Jesse Plemons.
In a new chat, he revealed that what was supposed to be a six-month stay in Hungary for work quickly turned into a nightmare.
“We all went as a family. We enrolled them in the International School there and then my son had appendicitis and emergency surgery and then he recovered for a week and then he had a blockage,” Dunst recalled during her recent appearance on the show. SmartLess Podcast.
“Basically, my stay in Budapest was horrible. It was horrible.”
When co-host Jason Bateman noted that it was unusual for a four-year-old to have appendicitis, Dunst admitted he began to question everything.
“Everyone says, ‘Drink the water from there.’ Then I thought, ‘Yeah, the water is cool.’ And now I’m freaking out and thinking, ‘Was it the water?’ I don’t know.”
Reflecting on the difficult year, the Dale The star shared: “It seems like everyone has had a bad year, but the first part of our year was pretty bad.”
Dunst, who married Plemons in 2022 after meeting on the set of Fargo in 2016, had previously mentioned the ordeal in her interview with Town & Country in August, but declined to share details at the time.
He assured that his son is now “well” and fully recovered.