Hillary Clinton confirmed her husband’s claim Monday that she is no stranger to dizzy spells and dehydration, but said she could recall only two such incidents in the past five years.
“Oh, I think [it has happened] really only twice that I can recall,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “You know, it is something that has occurred a few times over the course of my life, and I’m aware of it and usually can avoid it.”
Clinton was recorded this weekend collapsing outside of an event in New York City. Her knees buckled, and her aides had to lift the candidate to help her get into her van.
The Clinton campaign has said she was overheated at the event, and they also revealed she was diagnosed last week with pneumonia.
Former President Bill Clinton told CBS News’ Charlie Rose Monday evening that the fainting episode was really not that remarkable.
The ex-president said the entire incident was the result of severe dehydration, and he added the former secretary of state has some experience in that area.
“Rarely, on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing has happened to her when she got severely dehydrated, and she has worked like a demon, as you know, as secretary of state, as a senator, and in the year since,” Bill Clinton said.
Later, on CNN, Hillary Clinton also downplayed the event, and said she didn’t even pass out when she was waiting to board her campaign van.
“I felt dizzy and I did lose my balance for a minute, but once I got in [the van], once I could sit down, once I could cool off, once I had some water, I immediately started feeling better,” she told Cooper.
The CNN host then asked why Clinton didn’t let people know last week that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia, and asked the Democratic nominee why she opted to keep it a secret.
“Well, I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal,” Clinton responded. “It’s just the kind of thing that if it happens to you and you’re a busy, active person. You keep moving forward.”
She also confirmed that her campaign will indeed release additional medical records, but she declined to say how far back they would go and how much area they would cover.
