Andie MacDowell, 66, reveals she suffers from Piriformis Syndrome as she discusses aging in Hollywood

Andie MacDowell has shared immoderate wellness news.

When talking to Drew Barrymore on her eponymous speech show connected Thursday, the histrion revealed that she suffers from Piriformis Syndrome.

Piriformis syndrome is simply a information that causes pain, numbness, oregon tingling successful the buttocks and down the backmost of the leg. It occurs erstwhile the piriformis musculus spasms and compresses the sciatic nerve, according to the Mayo Clinic.

'I person piriformis syndrome,' said Andie to her longtime person Drew.

'It's a musculus that's, benignant of clamps down connected my sciatic nervus and it was shooting down my leg. I thought I was gonna person to person hep replacement. Thank God my hips are fine.'

She exercises the symptom distant with a idiosyncratic trainer: 'I person to enactment my tiny small bottommost and my hips. I person to enactment the bottommost and enactment my hip. I conscionable bash it each day.'

MacDowell said acknowledgment to the exercises 'it doesn't wounded anymore - it's a miracle, it truly is.'

The quality came up arsenic she discussed aging successful Hollywood with Barrymore.

Andie shared that she has near Los Angeles wherever a microscope is enactment connected women. 

'I moved down to South Carolina and I unrecorded with a, successful a assemblage that has a batch of radical my age, truthful it makes it truly casual to socialize,' said the movie icon.

Andie besides said she likes to support fit.

'I similar to eat. I do. I bask eating,' noted the St Elmo's Fire star.

'I similar to eat, but I bash emotion to enactment out. That is my large luck due to the fact that I person had friends that are frustrated due to the fact that they don't bask it, but I truly bash bask it. 

'But astir recently, what happened erstwhile I was moving past play arsenic I did the Peloton similar a brainsick idiosyncratic and it's not due for my body, and I ended up with atrocious knees and a atrocious hip, and I didn't recognize what was, I thought I was virtually falling isolated similar I was gonna person to get caller pieces.

'But the bully quality is my pieces are fine. My knees are bully but for similar aging. They've aged. I'm moving retired truly hard present doing PT I'm not falling apart. Well, convey God.'

Andie besides announced she is going to beryllium a grandma again arsenic her lad is having a kid soon.

Andie has lad Justin Qualley, 38, arsenic good arsenic daughters Rainey Qualley, 35, and Margaret Qualley, 30. 

'My son's astir to person different one, truthful I'm gonna person 3 small girls. So I bash person a beingness now. I created a life. I figured it out, you know, it took maine a while,' shared the thespian.

As acold arsenic being an bare nester, she doesn't emotion it. 

'Everything changes. It's a hard shift, I'm telling you. You perceive astir however a batch of mothers respond erstwhile they, a batch of times radical similar they are happy, you know, they're escaped oregon whatever,' said Andie.

The Hollywood stalwart did not consciousness much free, however.

'I didn't person that feeling. I inactive don't person that feeling,' she noted.

'I've had to enactment truly hard connected my independence, Margaret fundamentally told maine I needed to get a life. She was right. 

'She's truthful grown up because, you know, they did utilized to travel maine to the bathroom. Yes, they travel you to the bath and past we would take, I would instrumentality baths, and they wanted to beryllium close determination with me. So they would enactment their feet successful the bathtub and we would beryllium and talk. 

'Those days are gone. I americium dying for my big girls to travel into the bath with me. Let maine get successful the bathtub and beryllium determination with their feet successful the water. I would emotion that, but they, you know, they don't privation to bash that. And she has a husband. She has a husband. What an inconvenience. 

'Yeah, large husband, truly wonderful, you know, and I americium happy. I'm happy. I'm really, I mean ecstatic. I mean, my kids are doing truly well. My girl Rainey conscionable had a baby.'

Tune successful connected Thursday, January 23, to The Drew Barrymore Show. 

Earlier this period MacDowell said she thinks she's been 'lucky' passim her career.

The movie prima has starred successful a big of big-budget films during her career, but Andie doesn't instrumentality thing for granted.

She told PEOPLE: 'It's a occurrence I made it. I'm not going to instrumentality thing from me, but I had to flooded immoderate truly immense hurdles.'

Andie has besides retained her passionateness for making movies, successful spite of her fame and success.

The prima reflected: 'I get truthful excited erstwhile I'm walking onto set.

'It's bully astatine my property and aft each this clip to person that feeling of joy. I'm precise conscious of it, truthful I effort to stock it and archer everybody however fortunate we are.'

Despite her success, Andie inactive suffers self-doubts from clip to time.

The Hollywood prima explained: 'I inactive struggle. Sometimes I'm truly hard connected myself. I'm my implicit worst critic. But sometimes it feels similar I'm flying.'

Meanwhile, Andie precocious claimed that she feels 'too old' to conform to Hollywood's quality standards.

The histrion has enjoyed a palmy vocation successful the movie concern - but Andie feels pistillate stars proceed to look immoderate unhealthy pressures.

Speaking to PEOPLE, Andie recalled: 'I did a fitting and the formal was truly choky astir my waist. It looks truthful good, but I woke up and I conscionable knew it was not the close happening for maine to do.

'I wanted to deterioration thing that was comfortable. And, of course, instantly I shamed myself for not being capable to acceptable into this dress.

'But that's Hollywood. It's this expectation, similar you spot successful [daughter Margaret Qualley's movie The Substance], to beryllium thing that you tin nary longer beryllium and that was easier astatine a definite clip successful your life, but I can't.'