Few things are quite as stressful as moving out of your house. You're literally uprooting your whole entire life to start again somewhere else. Actor Josh Brolin knows this stress very well. However, it got some difficult to manage that it actually caused a medical scare.
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Recently, Brolin spoke on the Sirius XM Literally! with Rob Lowe podcast. There, he opens up about his hometown of Montecito, California and moving back to his stomping grounds. Usually, you would think that it would be a spiritually gratifying move back home. However, it actually proved to be quite the opposite. Instead, the actor reveals that the stress of coming back actually caused him to get Bell's Palsy.
"I got so stressed out about moving here because it represented something very specific to me that I ended up contracting a mild case of Bell's Palsy," Brolin says. "From the stress. Absolutely a hundred percent. There's nothing else to blame it on. The last time I got Bell's Palsy was 17 years ago when I was thinking about moving back up here. So the two times I've gotten Bell's Palsy are when I was thinking about moving up here."
Josh Brolin Gets So Stressed From His Move Back Home That He Contracts Bell's Palsy
Eventually, the stress stopped ruling over the No Country For Old Men actor's daily life. Then, it allowed Brolin to properly reminisce on all the good times he had as a kid. all these good memories are starting to come up. I'm like, wow, I remember when I was on Biltmore, we're down in Butterfly. Was it Miramar? All these great things," he recalls.
"So all these things are popping out of the ground. My childhood wasn't as severe as I illustrated it to be, writers and storytellers make everything more dramatic not that it wasn't, because I think it was, but, all the other stuff came too, and it's been really nice," Brolin adds.
