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Adam Devine's health is still greatly impacted by the accident he had as a child. The Workaholics actor recently disclosed that a doctor informed him that the injuries he received in the accident are slowly killing him. He was struck by a cement truck when he was eleven years old.
Devine, 41, stated in an April 2 episode of the podcast In Depth With Graham Bensinger, "It's been a nightmare." "I'm having spasms everywhere. During this past year, I was told by [the doctors] that I was literally dying.
The Pitch Perfect star, who is married to Chloe Bridges and has a 12-month-old son named Beau, was first diagnosed with Stiff Persons Syndrome (SPS), a condition in which the "muscles get so tight that you can no longer walk or move." He said this restriction can affect the heart, making it "too tight to beat." Celine Dion was diagnosed with the condition in 2022.
Before disclosing that the doctors reversed his diagnosis six months later, Devine continued, "They told me that I had that a month before my son was born." The Righteous Gemstones star was aware of his poor health despite that retraction. "I could only go a few blocks before my muscles became so tight that I was unable to move."
However, he was informed that his recent muscle soreness was caused by his previous experience with the cement truck after a second opinion verified that he did not have SPS.
Devine now thinks that his exercise routine, which he began "three years ago" and consists of both cycling and CrossFit, may have been the cause of his enigmatic symptoms.
He clarified, "I think I just got so tight." "I just kind of snapped because my body has all these things that are a little wonky and wrong with it."
Regarding his decades-old accident, the Modern Family alum has shared a throwback Instagram photo of himself in the hospital as a child, among other details from that near-fatal event.
For two years, I was unable to walk 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.”
