When we love something we follow everything that the actors in it do. We’ve loved Andie McDowell for what seems like forever and yes, that’s one of the reasons that we started watching The Way Home.
We’ve stayed because the show is addictive and captivating.
As if we didn’t have enough to love Andie McDowell for, she was open about a chronic illness and for that we are thankful. This writer has been diagnosed with a chronic illness and when people in the public eye speak out about having one it makes people (me) feel less alone.
The actress was in the midst of The Way Home press and appeared on The Drew Barrymore show. She announced that she was diagnosed with piriformis syndrome. What is piriformis syndrome?
It is a condition that “causes pain and numbness in the buttocks and down the back of the leg. It occurs when the piriformis muscle in the buttocks presses on the sciatic nerve.”
She said, “I have piriformis syndrome, so it’s a muscle that kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve, and it was shooting down my leg.”
And then continued “I thought I was going to have to have a hip replacement, thank God, my hips are fine.”
Now, no one has to talk about their health, but Andie’s openness does make a difference. A chronic illness/condition is lonely and isolating. So when someone who is a celebrity speaks out about having one it makes people feel seen and less alone.
McDowell is taking care of her health, saying, “I have to work my tiny little bottom and my hips. I have to work the bottom and work my hip. I just do it every day.”
She also added that “it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
MORE: This week’s The Way Home review is here!
