United Kingdom, July 9 -- Emmy Rossum refused to go to hospital when she went into labour until the New York Knicks had finished playing.

The Shameless actress, who has daughter May, five, and a three-year-old son with husband Sam Esmail, has reflected on the first time she gave birth, and how she didn't want to leave the house until she'd watched the end of the basketball.

She told the Call Her Daddy podcast: "What was in the front of my psyche, was I was not going to go into labour until after the Knicks game.

"I was labouring over a large kind of exercise ball in full labour, as I'm watching the Knicks game, and in this photo, my mom is next to me on the couch, being like, 'I really think you should just like go get the epidural,' a...