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hearing in my right ear, I had no feeling in my left leg. I was stuttering. I didn’t have full control of my right arm. It just wasn’t going well. My friend Quincy Jones invited me to come over for dinner over the Christmas holiday because he had had several strokes. He said he had a terrific doctor that he thought I should see. He could tell I was just not doing well and he got me to a really great doctor in Los Angeles, Dr Hart Cohen, and he very quickly diagnosed me with what’s called a rain seizure condition. He was able to treat me for the after-effects of this condition that I have and help me to find a way to recovery. That was astounding because I just didn’t feel that I’d ever be able to work again or function again in the condition I was in. He helped me a lot. At a certain point I was on maybe 15 or 16 medications and I told my doctor that I just didn’t want to do it and he connected me with a psycho-pharmacologist who helped me withdraw from all of the medications. It was a complicated journey and my mother helped me through that.
And you had a one-year-old son throughout this?
I had a little baby. And very quickly after my divorce, I adopted another son. And then another son almost immediately after that because I got a call that they were brothers. So suddenly I had three children while I was recovering.
You said before how you have to have failure to have success. What do you consider your biggest successes as an actress but also as a human being? Well, just so many things. I think as an actor it’s maybe playing diverse types of roles. I had such a good time doing comedy with Albert Brooks [‘The Muse’] and I’m finding the older I get, the funnier everything seems. So maybe just the diversity of things is really great. The opportunity to work with all kinds of people is what I enjoy the most.
I also find the great achievement of someone like me, so shy, is being able to learn to speak in public – that’s a big thing. When I was young, just standing up in church and having to talk, the tears would fall. So learning how to do these things has been really great and that has been really wonderful because it’s helped me
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