Frankie Muniz is setting the record straight on his health.
The 36-year-old Malcolm In The Middle star addressed the rumors that have been circulating about his health in a recent interview on Steve-O’s Wild Ride podcast. He broke his silence on all the speculation that he suffers from memory loss following a series of mini-strokes in 2012 and 2013.
Frankie stated that the mini-strokes had actually been misdiagnosed and misreported, and were in fact migraine auras. He said:
“This is the first time that I’ve actually ever gotten to clarify [the rumor]. If you search my name, all it talks about is how like I have no memory or I’m dying of strokes and all this kind of stuff… You search my name (and) it’s basically, ‘Frankie is dying.’”
He went on to talk about his memory, touching on his incredibly busy work schedule when he was younger:
“I’ve thought about it a lot like over my years of like, you know, why do I have a bad memory? You know what I mean? The only logical thing I can say is, yeah, I’ve had nine concussions. I don’t want to blame the concussions or blame anything else. I just think it’s the fact that I did so f—king much in that time frame that of course I can’t remember all of it.”
And Frankie also tackled his time on Dancing With The Stars in 2017 and how they seemingly exaggerated his memory loss:
“To be honest, like, I love Dancing With The Stars, and I don’t want to say anything that will make them hate me, but they kind of tell you what your most memorable year is going to be.
You know what I mean? And they were like, ‘It’s 2001 because it’s when you were nominated for an Emmy and the Golden Globes’ and all that kind of stuff. And I go, ‘I don’t remember what I felt then. I don’t, you know? It was me kind of blowing off the fact that I can’t say ‘That’s my favorite year’ because I can’t tell you what happened in 2001… I had to say, like, ‘I don’t really remember.’
But I wasn’t saying I don’t remember anything.”
