The Righteous Gems actor Adam DeVine has opened up a few scary state of affairs the place he was misdiagnosed with Stiff Individual Syndrome (SPS), twice!
DeVine spoke concerning the matter in a latest interview with Parade, revealing {that a} childhood accident led to the misdiagnosis. “After I was a child, I had a nasty accident, and that’s once I was 11. I used to be hit by a cement truck, and I couldn’t stroll for a pair years after that,” he shared.
He added, “They instructed me on two separate events that they suppose I’ve [SPS] as a result of I’ve one of many markers for it, and I’ve one other factor that was a predisposition for having Stiff Individual Syndrome.”
In line with the Cleveland Clinic, “Stiff particular person syndrome is a uncommon, continual situation that causes muscle stiffness and painful muscle spasms. The severity of signs varies from individual to individual. There’s no treatment for stiff particular person syndrome, however therapy may also help handle signs and gradual the development of the situation.”
The uncommon situation got here into the general public gentle in December 2022 when Céline Dion revealed she’d been identified with SPS. Prime Video launched the documentary, I Am: Céline Dion, in June 2024, detailing the singer’s battles with the situation as she hoped to return to touring.
DeVine instructed the outlet, “After doing extra assessments, they’ve come to the conclusion that I shouldn’t have Stiff Individual Syndrome, and these are simply residual results from my childhood accident coming to fruition, I suppose. So I don’t have it, fortunately.”
“It was a scary analysis to virtually get, or to truly get twice, particularly proper earlier than my son was born [in 2024],” he continued. “It was fairly terrifying, however I’m comfortable to say that I shouldn’t have Stiff Individual Syndrome.”
DeVine, who rose to fame on the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics alongside his co-writers/co-stars Blake Anderson and Anders Holm, beforehand opened up about his brush with loss of life in a 2016 interview with Leisure Weekly.
“We have been gonna go get sweet. And in addition rip pages out of Penthouse. That was an actual agenda,” he recalled of himself and his pals heading to the shop. “One buddy was throughout the road. He yelled ‘Come on!’ as in ‘I’m excited to go take a look at boobs!’ And I heard ‘Come on!’ as in ‘The coast is obvious!’”
As he walked his bike onto the street, DeVine was hit by a cement truck. “They are saying the explanation I lived was the bike took the hit first,” he defined. “I nonetheless slid 500 ft. Picked me up underneath the primary two wheels after which spit me out… I’m glad that it occurred to me,” he added. “It actually gave me a driving drive.”