Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was left absolutely floored this week after actress Kate Beckinsale told a story so bizarre that even the studio audience fell silent for a moment, unsure whether they were hearing a comedy bit or an actual medical mystery. During her interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Beckinsale casually dropped a claim that immediately threw Kimmel off his rhythm: her daughter’s boyfriend, she said, had “laid two eggs in a week.” Not metaphorical eggs. Not slang. Actual eggs—complete with yolks and fully formed shells.

The moment unfolded during what began as a light conversation about Beckinsale’s daughter and her boyfriend. Then, without warning, Beckinsale said in her usual calm, unhurried voice, “He laid two eggs in a week.” Kimmel blinked, processing the sentence as though it had been spoken in a foreign language. “He laid two eggs in a week?” he repeated, bewildered. “Is that a British thing I don’t know about?”

Beckinsale immediately clarified that the young man was not British, nor was there any cultural explanation that might make such a statement reasonable. “No,” she replied. “He’s from New Jersey. He’s a Jew from New Jersey, and I thought possibly it was that. But I haven’t met any other Jews from New Jersey who have done that.”

The audience broke into laughter, but Kimmel was clearly trying to understand whether she was joking. Determined to get a straight answer, he repeated the question: “What does that mean he’s laid two eggs in a week?” Beckinsale then doubled down, explaining that her daughter’s boyfriend had literally gone to the bathroom and discovered he had “laid an egg”—and not just any egg, but a fully formed one with a shell and a yolk inside.

“He said, ‘I’ve laid an egg,’” Beckinsale recalled with a mix of humor and disbelief. “It had a shell and a yolk.” Kimmel’s eyes widened. “Hold on a second. An egg came out of his body?” he asked, leaning forward as if waiting for her to say she had made the whole thing up.

But she didn’t. Instead, Beckinsale calmly replied, “Yes, and not out of his mouth or ears. It came out the route that it would come out of a hen… Well, not his vagina. He went to the bathroom and then was very surprised to find that he had laid an egg.”

This sentence alone was enough to send the audience howling, while Kimmel oscillated between laughing and trying to make sense of the anatomy being described. He asked the obvious question next: “Are you sure it wasn’t one of his testicles?”

Beckinsale immediately dismissed the idea. “I’m absolutely certain, no,” she said firmly, before recounting the entire surreal experience from the beginning. The first time it happened, she explained, the young man was genuinely terrified. “He was like, ‘It’s got a full shell, it’s got a yolk, and you know, it’s the size of a bird.’”

According to Beckinsale, he crushed the egg to inspect what was inside—and indeed found a yolk. Even stranger, the yolk appeared to have hardened inside him, as if it had been cooked before exiting his body. “It was like a hardboiled one too,” she said, her tone indicating that even she could barely believe the words coming out of her mouth.

Beckinsale acknowledged that her initial reaction was skeptical. “I thought at first, OK, this is a little embellished. Obviously he can’t be—this doesn’t happen, right?” But any skepticism she had evaporated when, a week later, she received a frantic text message from her daughter. Her daughter had been flying back to New York, Beckinsale explained, and during the flight panic set in. “I get a text going, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, he’s done it again and now he’s really freaking out.’”

This wasn’t a one-time anomaly. It had happened twice. In a week.

At this point, Kimmel was staring at Beckinsale with a mixture of fascination and existential dread. The audience, sensing his bewilderment, roared at nearly every pause. But Beckinsale continued, still sounding as if she were recounting an ordinary household mishap rather than a biological impossibility.

She admitted that she considered another explanation: perhaps her daughter’s boyfriend was inserting eggs into his body rather than producing them. “I did think, is he putting eggs up there?” she confessed. But she quickly dismissed that theory too, saying it would be “quite hard to put an egg up your bottom and then get it out whole without injuring the egg.”

The conversation only grew more surreal when Beckinsale revealed that she actually had photographic evidence. “I have a photo,” she told Kimmel, warning that the image was “a little bit gross” and “quite medical.” This made Kimmel recoil slightly in anticipation, but Beckinsale showed him anyway.

Kimmel’s reaction was instantaneous. He winced, pulled his head back, and blurted out, “What in the world?!” The studio erupted.

The moment was one of those rare late-night interview segments that spiraled into something entirely unpredictable—part comedy, part medical anomaly, part baffling modern folklore. On social media, clips of the exchange immediately went viral, with viewers debating whether the young man’s condition was physically possible, medically documented, or simply a mystery destined to become a talk-show legend.

Yet Beckinsale stood her ground: this was not an exaggeration, nor a comedic embellishment. According to her, her daughter’s boyfriend experienced something that defied logic, biology, and common understanding.

Kimmel, meanwhile, never fully recovered his composure during the interview. The astonishment on his face lingered long after Beckinsale finished the story. The entire exchange demonstrated one of Beckinsale’s unique strengths as a guest: her ability to deliver the most outrageous stories with a straight face, leaving everyone else scrambling to keep up.

In the days that followed, the moment became one of the most talked-about late-night clips of the week. Fans could not stop quoting lines like “He laid two eggs in a week,” “Not his vagina,” and “It cooked inside him.” Some debated scientific explanations. Others simply marveled at how Beckinsale could recount something so bizarre with such effortless composure.

Regardless of the explanation—and none was offered—one thing is certain: Jimmy Kimmel had never heard anything like it on his show before. And judging by his expression, he may never be the same again.