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Adam Devine’s childhood accident still has a massive impact on his health.
The “Workaholics” actor, who was hit by a cement truck when he was 11 years old, recently revealed that a doctor told him the injuries he sustained from the accident are slowly killing him.
“It’s been a nightmare,” Devine, 41, said in an April 2 episode of the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. “I have spasms all over. For a while, [the doctors] told me I was dying—literally, within this last year.”
The “Pitch Perfect” star—who shares 12-month-old son Beau with wife Chloe Bridges—was initially told he might be suffering from Stiff Persons Syndrome (SPS), a disorder where the “muscles get so tight that you can no longer walk or move.” Of the condition, which Celine Dion was diagnosed with in 2022, he noted that this restrictive condition can impact the heart, causing it to “become too tight to beat.”
They told me that I had that a month before my son was born,” Devine added, before revealing the doctors walked back his diagnosis six months later. Despite that retraction, the Righteous Gemstones actor knew his health wasn’t in the greatest place. “I could only walk a few blocks before I’ll get so tight that I couldn’t move anymore,” Devine said.
However, after a second opinion confirmed he didn’t have SPS, he was told that his recent muscle discomfort stemmed from his former encounter with the cement truck as a child.
“I couldn’t walk for two years and had to completely relearn how to walk,” he reflected in the 2017 post. “The nurses would always come in and have to adjust my legs, which were fully skin grafted and in traction. The pain was next level.”
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