Hollywood star Josh Brolin recently revealed that he contracted a “mild case” of Bell’s Palsy due to the stress of moving back to Montecito, California.
During an episode of SiriusXM’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe,” Brolin was asked about his recent move to Montecito. Asked by Lowe about the “ghosts on every corner” that he has faced by moving back to the area, Brolin said, “I got so stressed out about moving here because it represented something very specific to me that I ended up contracting a mild case of Bell’s Palsy.”
Brolin explained that he was “absolutely” certain that the stress was what triggered the contraction of Bell’s Palsy. He told Lowe, “A hundred percent. There’s nothing else to blame it on.”
READ MORE: Hollywood star admits ‘I’ve done some damage’
“The last time I got Bell’s Palsy-17 years ago when I was thinking about moving back up here. So, the two times I’ve gotten Bell’s Palsy are when I was thinking about moving up here,” the Hollywood star added. “And then I moved up here, and I was like, ‘Oh! It’s all good.’”
In response to Brolin’s revelation that he contracted Bell’s Palsy twice over the stress of considering a move back to Montecito, Lowe asked the “Thanos” actor if he had been able to get “to the other side” and overcome the memories from his past that he previously associated with Montecito.
“No, not only that, all these good memories are starting to come up. I’m like, wow, I remember when I was on Biltmore, we’re down in Butterfly, or was it Miramar? All these great things,” Brolin answered. “So all these things are popping out of the ground. Wow, my childhood wasn’t as severe as I kind of illustrated it to be. Which we do anyway, as writers and storytellers, you make everything more dramatic and more severe. And not that it wasn’t, because I think it was. But, all the other stuff came too, and it’s been really, really nice.”
The Mayo Clinic defines Bell’s Palsy as “a condition that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face. Often the weakness is short-term and improves over weeks.”
According to the Mayo Clinic the muscle weakness causes half of an individual’s face to “appear to droop.” As a result, “smiles are one-sided, and the eye on the affected side is hard to close.”