Alicia Silverstone updates concerned social media users about her well-being after posted a TikTok of her eating a poisonous fruit earlier this week.
In a Follow-Instagram-Post On Tuesday, the “Clueless” star joked: “Alive and well! Don’t worry… I didn’t swallow šš.”
Instagram users flooded her comments section with words of relief after Silverstone announced that she had fortunately escaped death.
āGlad youāre doing well,ā someone wrote.
Another commented: “Yes, we were worried honey š„.”
“PHEW!!! I was so stressed!!! Glad you’re safe and sound!” added someone else.
Just a day earlier, Silverstone had alerted her over 4 million followers when she filmed herself holding a small orange fruit and taking a bite out of it, asking her fans for help in identifying the mysterious fruit.
“Ok, I’ve spotted something I don’t know what it is and I need your help,” the actress said in a TikTok on Monday while walking on the street in England. “I just took a bite because it was lying on the street and we were debating whether that’s a tomato or not. It’s definitely not.”
“So what the hell is this? Because when you open it up, it looks like this,” she continued, pointing to the squashed fruit on the floor. “And when I bite into it – I don’t think it’s supposed to be edible – but it tastes almost like a pepper? Does anyone know what this is?”
TikTok users rushed to Silverstone’s comments section and speculated that the miniature fruit was a poisonous Jerusalem artichoke.
Consuming a Jerusalem artichoke can cause symptoms such as fever, sweating, vomiting, stomach pain, headache and increased heart rate. according to the Queensland Poisons Information CentreSymptoms can last for several days and even lead to death.
