Noel Gallagher’s daughter left ‘struggling to breathe’ after police cinema search

Anais Gallagher was left “struggling to breathe” for nearly two days after police officers walked in carrying torches and searched the audience during a film screening in London.

The 26-year-old model, who is Noel Gallagher‘s daughter, had been watching the Anne Hathaway film Verity when the officers entered and asked whether a man had come into the screening room alone.

The panic caused by the experience left her “struggling to breathe” for nearly two days, and she later went to hospital.

In her latest YouTube vlog, the photographer said: “I genuinely had a panic attack, I think, and I was really struggling to breathe. I woke up this morning, Sunday, so this was like 40 hours ago, and I was still struggling to fully breathe.”

She added: “I was sat there having my popcorn in the cinema in Leicester Square, and then five or six policemen come into the cinema room with torches, and they’re, like, scanning everyone being like, ‘We’re looking for someone. Did a man come in here by himself?’

“And I have anxiety at the cinema all the time anyway because I am always terrified that something’s going to happen. But it stressed me out so much, I had to leave, I had to go. It was too much for me to handle, actually.”

Gallagher continued: “I’m always looking over my shoulder anyway, so when something like that happens, it’s, kind of, the worst thing ever because it just reaffirms my belief that bad things do happen.

“Also, I’ve always had a fear that like some f***** is in the cinema, and today, when they came in to look in the cinema for someone, I was like, ‘See? People do go and hide in the cinema.'”

She was still shaken up at home, adding: “That’s really s*** me up, I’m not going to lie. I still feel the anxiety in my chest. I nearly convinced myself that I had to go to A+E. I really thought that my lungs couldn’t breathe, but we are fine.”

The presenter contacted her 60-year-old mum, the columnist Meg Mathews, who happened to be visiting London, to ask whether she should go to Accident and Emergency (A+E).

Gallagher recalled telling her, “‘Mom, do I need to call 111?'”And my mom was like, ‘No, but I’ll come over.'”

However, as her symptoms persisted, Anais decided to go to hospital to get checked out.

She said: “I was having problems breathing after the cinema thing, which is going to sound so crazy.”

Gallagher added: ” So I went to the hospital, and they listened to my lungs, they listened to my heart, they X-rayed my lungs.”Apparently, they’re all great. They’re, like, really good. So that was good to know.”

Noel, 59, also has sons Donovan, 19, and Sonny, 16, with his 55-year-old former spouse, Sara MacDonald. They were married from 2011 until 2023.

The “Wonderwall” hitmaker was married to Matthews from 1997 until 2001.