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Kaia Gerber Says She Got a Didgeridoo “Exorcism” on the American Horror Story Set After Cindy Crawford Sent Holy Water

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Kaia Gerber says she has spent her life attracting “beings from other dimensions in a very casual and chill way,” and she’s been “haunted” her whole life. Thus when she landed back-to-back roles in Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” universe, Cindy Crawford came prepared.

Kaia Gerber at Vanity Fair's 2026 Vanities Party at Bar Marmont in Los Angeles
At Bar Marmont in Los Angeles, Kaia Gerber attended Vanity Fair’s 2026 Vanities Party: A Night for Young Hollywood on March 11, 2026. Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images.

Crawford sent holy water to the set of “American Horror Story: Double Feature,” where Gerber, 24, played Kendall Carr, a Harvard student who becomes impregnated by aliens in the New Mexico desert. During that same production, Gerber says she underwent what she describes as an exorcism.

“Do you know how they did the exorcism? They played a didgeridoo all over me, that’s how they did the exorcism,” Gerber said on “The Mitch Churi Chat Show,” referring to the wind instrument used by Indigenous Australian cultures. “I’ve never talked about it, but that actually did happen.”

Gerber had joined Double Feature immediately after playing Ruby McDaniel, a switchblade-wielding ghost trapped in the Murder House, on the “American Horror Stories” spin-off. One audition tape, which Crawford helped her record, landed her both roles.

Kaia Gerber walking in a sheer black ruffled gown at night, holding a white phone case, with others behind her on a London street.
At The Shards screening in London on July 30, 2026, Kaia Gerber arrived wearing a flowing sheer black ruffled gown. Photo by Backgrid.

Gerber revealed the story while promoting “The Shards,” her latest series with Murphy. Her verdict on the ritual was simple: “I’m all healed.”

Kaia Gerber poses with Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, and Homer James Jigme Gere at "The Shards" Berlin premiere photocall
Kaia Gerber joins co-stars Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, and Homer James Jigme Gere at the Berlin photocall for “The Shards” at AchtBerlin on August 3, 2026. Photo by Gerald Matzka / Getty Images.

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Kaia Gerber at Vanity Fair's 2026 Vanities Party at Bar Marmont in Los Angeles
At Bar Marmont in Los Angeles, Kaia Gerber attended Vanity Fair's 2026 Vanities Party: A Night for Young Hollywood on March 11, 2026. Photo by Etienne Laurent AFP via Getty Images.
Kaia Gerber walking in a sheer black ruffled gown at night, holding a white phone case, with others behind her on a London street.
At The Shards screening in London on July 30, 2026, Kaia Gerber arrived wearing a flowing sheer black ruffled gown. Photo by Backgrid.
Kaia Gerber poses with Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, and Homer James Jigme Gere at "The Shards" Berlin premiere photocall
Kaia Gerber joins co-stars Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, and Homer James Jigme Gere at the Berlin photocall for "The Shards" at AchtBerlin on August 3, 2026. Photo by Gerald Matzka Getty Images.
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Kaia Gerber, Homer Gere, and Hayes Warner pose together at an indoor event, all dressed in black formal attire.
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