Four Weddings and a Funeral star Andie MacDowell diagnosed with agonising condition

Andie MacDowell is battling a achy musculus information called Piriformis syndrome.

The Four Weddings and a Funeral star’s ailment causes musculus spasms which compress the sciatic nervus and Andie, 66, has revealed she was initially frightened the symptom meant she was successful request of hep replacement surgery.

‘I person Piriformis syndrome. It’s a musculus that’s, benignant of clamps down connected my sciatic nervus and it was shooting down my leg,’ she explained during an quality connected The Drew Barrymore Show.

‘I thought I was gonna person to person hep replacement. Thank God my hips are fine.’

Andie started moving retired with a idiosyncratic trainer and the exercises she’s been doing person helped easiness her pain.

She added: ‘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 time .. It doesn’t wounded anymore – it’s a miracle, it truly is.’

During the interrogation Andie besides admitted she has besides been disquieted astir her knees but she has realised her aches and pains are usually down to her energetic work-outs connected an workout bike.

She said: ‘When 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 realise 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 opened up astir her household beingness revealing she inactive misses her grown-up kids – Justin Qualley, 38, Rainey Qualley, 35, and Margaret Qualley, 30 – since they near home.

She said: ‘Everything changes [when kids permission home]. 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.

‘I didn’t person that feeling. I inactive don’t person that feeling. I’ve had to enactment truly hard connected my independence, Margaret fundamentally told maine I needed to get a life. She was right.’

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