Adam Devine told by doctors he was dying after severe health complications from childhood accident

Adam Devine has revealed that doctors told him he may be dying due to the long-term injuries he sustained after being hit by a cement truck as a child.The actor, known for his roles in “Pitch Perfect” and “Modern Family,” was told he had Stiff Person Syndrome — a rare neurological disorder — that would cut years off his life.After doing some digging, doctors soon discovered that his health issues were actually linked to the childhood crash.“I was having spasms all over and I still kind of do,” DeVine shared on Wednesday’s episode of the “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” podcast.“They don’t really know.

For a while, they told me I was dying.Literally within this last year, they told me that.”The “Modern Family” alum was first told that he had Stiff Person Syndrome, which is a “rare autoimmune neurological disorder that most commonly causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms that come and go and can worsen over time,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. “They told me that I have that literally a month before my son, Beau, was born,” Devine shared.

“And so I’m like, ‘Oh great, now I’m gonna die.He’s gonna be six years old and only know a crippled father.’”As months went by, Devine, 41, felt tightness in his muscles increase, prompting him to see a medical expert who coined the phrase “Stiff Person Syndrome,” according to Devine.While the “Jexi” actor didn’t name the medical professional, the expert allegedly denied that the actor had the disorder, and suggested the comedian’s symptoms were a response to him being hit by a cement truck years ago.“He’s like, ‘This is from your accident when you were a child,’” Devine added.

“‘The spasms are a little unexplainable, but it could just be [that] you got so tight that your body doesn’t know what to do with it so you’re misfiring a little bit.’”Devine was hit by a 42-ton cement truck when he was 11 years old while crossing the street.H...