Sexy Latina Eva Mendes used hypnotism to conquer her crippling fear of spiders. The actress admits that up to a year ago she couldn't bear to be in the same room as even the smallest arachnid - and had to insist on someone killing the creepy crawly.

She explains, "Ever since I was a little girl if I saw one, it would be a physical reaction and I'd freak out. If I saw one I'd have to have somebody kill it and then I couldn't take their word for it, I had to see the dead carcass. It was getting in the way and if I'd see one in the room at night... and someone couldn't get to it and it kind of got lost, I couldn't fall asleep in the room... It was psycho territory."

So Mendes visited a hypnotist, and was a little disappointed she didn't get a pocket watch out and dangle it before her eyes.

She adds, "You lie down, you relax and then she takes you through this kind of relaxation thing and then the cool thing is you think it's only three minutes and then the whole hour went by. I don't know what she did in there but it's helped. Now, I'll see one... and I'll just be like, 'Cool, what's up...?' and we're cool with each other."

The actress is so impressed she's keen to return to the hypnotist to see if she can iron out any other personal problems: "I wanna do it for everything; I'm like, 'Can she help me with road rage or midnight snacking or, like, foul language?"

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