“Modern Family” star Adam Devine said doctors recently said he was dying, but he later discovered injuries from his childhood.
Devine shared shocking news on Wednesday’s episode of “More Info with Graham Bensinger” podcast, explaining his medical journey, including misdiagnosis, and the shocking connections he suffered with as a child. He also admitted that the doctors didn’t know why his body was closed.
“It was a nightmare,” he said. “They – they really don’t know – I was twitching, and I’m still doing it. They told me I was dead – during this last year they told me it was to me.”
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He was initially said to be suffering from the same medical condition that caused the famous Celine Dion.
“They said I was called the hard-person syndrome,” Devine said.
“It makes your muscles so tight that you can no longer walk and move, and then your heart is a muscle, so your heart will stop beating, and it will become too tight to bend and you will die.”
“The average life expectancy is six years and I told me I literally have it, just like a month before my son Beau was born.”
“Then they said you might not have it,” Devine said on the podcast.
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 5: Adam Devine will be taking part in the final season premiere of the HBO original series “The Righteous Gemstones” held at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles, CA on March 5, 2025. (Photo: Maya Dehlin Spach/Wireimage) Getty Images
He sought the help of a doctor and quickly discovered that his health issues were actually related to crashing as a child.
The expert who coined the term “hard human syndrome” evaluated Devine and told him he did not suffer from neurological conditions.
The actor was said to be suffering from the long-term injury that lasted after being attacked by a cement truck as a child.
Devine said the doctor told him.
SANTA MONICA, CA – Jan. 12: Adam Devine will attend the 25th Annual Critics Choice Awards held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA on January 12, 2020. (Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Champagne Collet)
The famous actor explained that he was attacked by a 42-ton cement truck in 11 years while trying to cross the street.
“I went outside, I broke, I was taken under the wheels and spitted out, they said, I flew like 500 feet, and they said. [I] The helicopter was away,” he said.
His injuries prevented him from walking between sixth and seventh grades, and he underwent 26 surgeries just a few weeks apart from each other as part of his recovery. The actor said he had to relearn how to walk, sit and stand, and admitted that his feet were “still ruined” decades later. Devine said he has been performing “maybe more than a dozen” surgical procedures since his childhood.(Related: A catastrophic video of Celine Dion suffering from seizure surfaces in a new documentary)
Devine said he believes going to the CrossFit gym during the pandemic has made him obsessively cycling and causing pain.
