Kaia Gerber reveals past exorcism: 'I was possessed as a child'

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Set us as preferred Kaia Gerber says she had an exorcism after her parents believed she was “possessed” as a child.While promoting her new FX series “The Shards” on the podcast “The Mitch Churi Chat Show,” the 24-year-old actor and model recalled her experience working with Ryan Murphy on “American Horror Stories” (co-created by Brad Falchuk).Gerber played a teenage ghost in the 2021 “Horror Stories” spinoff trapped inside the historic Rosenheim Mansion, also known as the Murder House from the first “American Horror Story” season.Concerned about the spooky Los Angeles estate — which served a convent for nuns for half a century — Gerber said her mother, supermodel Cindy Crawford, gave her holy water to take on set.“She was like, ‘I don’t want you to get possessed,’” Gerber said.

“I was told I was possessed as a child.”Gerber — who during the interview sat next to her co-star Homer Gere — shared that she was “haunted” her whole life.“I do feel as though I attract beings from the other dimension, in a very casual and chill way,” said Gerber, who was also a cast member in “American Horror Story: Double Feature” (the 10th season of the FX anthology series) in 2021, where her character was involved in an alien abduction.When questioned by host Mitch Churi if the actor-model had undergone an exorcism, she revealed that she “actually” did.“They played a didgeridoo all over me.

That’s how they did the exorcism,” Gerber said.“That actually did happen.

I’ve never talked about it, but it actually did happen.”The sacred wind instrument — which is created from a eucalyptus tree trunk or branch naturally hollowed out by termites — was developed a thousand years ago by the Aboriginal community in northern Australia and is often used in cultural ceremonies.Some did...