Melanie Griffith Reveals Epilepsy Diagnosis

Melanie Griffith has revealed an epilepsy diagnosis. She spoke out about struggling with seizures at the Women’s Brain Health Initiative, which was hosted by Sharon Stone who once suffered a stroke.

Melanie explained that for a while no one knew what was happening to her or took it particularly seriously. She ultimately realized that her seizures were exacerbated by stress and that divorcing her ex-husband Antonio Banderas helped her keeping them contained as much as possible.

“It was an anomaly they didn’t know what it was — I had these seizures. I never knew why it happened or what it meant or what it was going to do to me…nobody explained anything. Then the last two that I had — I was in a boat outside of Cannes, on a big yacht, and I was extremely stressed out…every seizure that I had was at a point where I was extremely stressed and I had two seizures…one they took me off the boat. I had this major grand mal seizure they took me to the hospital in Cannes then brought me back to the boat and I had another seizure….And then when I came back, I was diagnosed with epilepsy which no one had said to me over a period of 20 years.”