Melanie Griffith Says Antonio Banderas Divorce Helped Her Heal From Epilepsy

Melanie Griffith revealed that she suffered from epilepsy, and was diagnosed six years ago. She revealed the news at a Women’s Bran Health Initiative panel this week, moderated by Sharon Stone.

Melanie said she was diagnosed in 2011 when she had two seizures while on a yacht: “I had this major grand mal seizure and they took me to the hospital in Cannes and then brought me back to the boat. And then I had another seizure and I went back [to the hospital]. They did the EEG and started to look at it seriously.”

She continued, “When I came back [to the U.S.], I was diagnosed with epilepsy and nobody had said to me over a period of 20 years, no one paid enough attention to even diagnose me.” Melanie added that her seizures were due to stress: “I was extremely stressed out. Every seizure that I had was at a point when I was extremely stressed.”

“I got divorced, which is a real healer for me,” she joked. “It’s been three years [since a seizure]. As women, we take on family, we get the husband, we have the life, we have the children, we take care of the house, we also go to work, we can’t sleep at night because we are up with the kids. I don’t think I’ve slept for 35 years. I still don’t sleep; it’s totally f—– up my sleep cycle.”

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