Actress Tamala Jones Opens Up About Her Brain Anuerysm
Tamala Jones, who currently plays Lanie Parish on Castle, is talking for the first time about her longtime struggle with a brain aneurysm.
The 37-year-old actress revealed to Black Enterprise that she has been struggling from the effects of a brain aneurysm (a localized ballooning of the cerebral artery or vein) she had when she was just 23-years-old and is finally speaking out.
“[I woke] up one morning with a massive headache; feeling like I had to use the bathroom,” Jones recounted of the moment when her aneurysm ruptured. “When I got out of bed I had no balance…I looked in the mirror and I’m telling you two seconds after I looked in that mirror I dropped and hit the floor.”
After losing control of her body, Jones went on a shoot for a sitcom during which her right arm was numb.
Jones was taken to hospital after work, where doctors told her that it was a miracle that she was even alive and walking and talking. After, Jones remembers having seizures but doesn’t remember too much else except for her grandmother coming to her apartment to take care of her.
Pictured: Actress Tamala Jones attends The 2011 Entertainment Weekly And Women In Film Pre-Emmy Party Sponsored By L’Oreal at BOA Steakhouse on September 16, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly)
