JULIA ROBERTS - JULIA ROBERTS€™ MESSAGE DELAY ANGER

JULIA ROBERTS€™ MESSAGE DELAY ANGER

Julia Roberts was said to be devastated after it took almost two days for her to get a message saying her mother had been hospitalised.

Julia Roberts "freaked out" after news her mother had had a major operation didn't reach her for two days.

The 41-year-old actress was filming in India when she learned her mother Betty, 75, who suffered a heart attack last month, had been admitted to an Atlanta hospital for an angioplasty procedure - which clears blocked arteries - earlier in the week.

A source said: "Julia was relieved to hear that her mother had undergone surgery and was recovering. But when she found out it took a day and a half for her family to get through her intense security, she absolutely exploded...Initially, Julia freaked out and began crying."

The blunder was blamed on the country's poor phone coverage, but Julia - who is working on new movie Eat, Pray, Love in the country - reportedly insisted more should have been done to get the message to her.

A source added to National Enquirer magazine: "Ultimately, she grew enraged when she found out how long it took her to get the news...Julia railed at the movie crew, 'When your own family can't get through to you, that's too much security! My mum could have been dead, and I might have been the last one in the world to know about it.'

"Julia said she'd rather have no security at all than go through an episode like that again... She only calmed down when she talked to her mother herself, and was sure that she was out of the woods."

It has previously been reported Julia hired 350 security guards to look after her while in India.