03
Mar 24 |
March 3, 2024
Leave a Reply
|
It was late summer of 2010, and actress Emma Caulfield Ford had been in the midst of shooting the comedy/drama TV series Gigantic in L.A. when she woke up one morning to find that the left side of her face had gone numb.
“I thought it was a pinched nerve, like I’d done some weird yoga move or something,” says Caulfield Ford, who’s best known for her role as Anya, a vengeful demon in human form, on the hit ’90s TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She chalked it up to pressures from work and a “horrific” year of stress in her personal life—and went to see her acupuncturist. He wondered if she might have Bell’s palsy (a usually temporary facial paralysis that can often be related to stress) and suggested she get an MRI.
“And so I did,” says Caulfield Ford, whose symptoms had disappeared after a couple of weeks. “I met with my neurologist, and he did a bunch of exams. But there was no urgency at the time — so when he called me at work, I was completely shook.”
Read full article at People
MAGAZINE SCANS > 2024 > People
PHOTOSHOOTS & PORTRAITS > 2024 > People