Andie MacDowell is embracing growing old — and every part that comes with it.
The “Four Weddings and a Funeral” actress, 66, addressed her well being throughout an interview on Drew Barrymore’s speak present Thursday, revealing she suffers from Piriformis Syndrome.
Piriformis Syndrome is a situation that causes ache, numbness, or tingling within the buttocks, hip or higher leg and happens when the piriformis muscle spasms and compresses the sciatic nerve, in line with the Mayo Clinic.
The ache generally is a delicate ache to a pointy, burning sensation that typically appears like a jolt or electrical shock, per the web site.
MacDowell shared the specifics of her situation, revealing the ache was so intense that she thought she’d want a hip alternative.
“I have piriformis syndrome,” she instructed Barrymore, 49.
“It’s a muscle that’s, kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve and it was shooting down my leg. I thought I was gonna have to have hip replacement. Thank God my hips are fine,” the star acknowledged.
MacDowell mentioned she works with a private coach to tame the ache, including that her earlier train of selection won’t have been serving to her challenge.
“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,” the “Groundhog Day” actress shared.
MacDowell admitted that she likes to work out, however her Peloton behavior wasn’t doing her any favors.
“I like to eat, but I do love to work out. That is my great fortune because I have had friends that are frustrated because they don’t enjoy it, but I really do enjoy it,” she defined.
“But most recently, what happened when I was working last season as I did the Peloton like a crazy person and it’s not appropriate for my body, and I ended up with bad knees and a bad hip, and I didn’t realize what was, I thought I was literally falling apart like I was gonna have to get new pieces,” she joked.
Fortunately, “my pieces are fine,” MacDowell instructed Barrymore. “My knees are good except for like aging. They’ve aged. I’m working out really hard now doing PT I’m not falling apart. Well, thank God.”
MacDowell additionally shared that she ditched Los Angeles and resides the quiet life over 2,000 miles away from Tinseltown.
“I moved down to South Carolina and I live with a, in a community that has a lot of people my age, so it makes it really easy to socialize,” she mentioned.
The “St Elmo’s Fire” actress additionally dished on her household life, revealing she’ll be a grandma once more as her son, Justin Qualley, 38, is anticipating a baby quickly.
MacDowell has three youngsters from her first marriage to Paul J. Qualley, together with Justin and daughters, Rainey Qualley, 35, and actress Margaret Qualley, 30, who was shockingly snubbed from the Oscars nominations record for her function in “The Substance.”
Whereas MacDowell didn’t tackle her daughter’s snub, she did speak about being an empty nester.
“I’ve had to work really hard on my independence, Margaret basically told me I needed to get a life. She was right,” she mentioned.
“She’s so grown up because, you know, they did used to follow me to the bathroom. Yes, they follow you to the bathroom and then we would take, I would take baths, and they wanted to be right there with me. So they would put their feet in the bathtub and we would sit and talk,” MacDowell defined to Barrymore’s viewers.
“Those days are gone. I am dying for my adult girls to come into the bathroom with me. Let me get in the bathtub and sit there with their feet in the water. I would love that, but they, you know, they don’t want to do that. And she has a husband. She has a husband. What an inconvenience,” she joked.
After divorcing her kids’s father in 1999 after 13 years of marriage, MacDowell married her second husband, Rhett Hartzog, in 2001.
They ended their marriage in 2004 after practically three years collectively.
