Aubrey Plaza Reflects On Life-Changing Stroke That Left Her Temporarily Paralyzed

At the age of 20, Aubrey Plaza, who was well-known for her comedic timing, suffered a stroke that changed her life.

The adored Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza has revealed the horrific facts of a stroke that caused her to feel cut off from her own body and thoughts.

The 40-year-old actor, who has also starred in films including Agatha All Along and White Lotus, went through this life-changing incident when he was just 20 years old.

In retrospect, she recounted the strange feeling of her brain shutting down.

Plaza stated in a previous NPR interview that the incident started with an unexpected blackout that indicated a significant problem.

“I remember that there was just like a really loud kind of sound happening,” she recalled. I was unable to speak due to the blood clot in my language center of the brain, so I put my hands to my throat and made a sound that sounded like an ah (ph).

“I got expressive aphasia right away, so when you speak to me, I can mentally grasp what you’re saying and know how to react. But in reality, I was unable to remove it. I was unable to speak.

Plaza described how the stroke left her momentarily paralyzed in an open interview with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM program in September, describing the whole experience as “wild” and bizarre.

Plaza came to a profound insight about the separation of her mind and body throughout the horrific event.

“I experienced a brief loss of motor skills. “The most bizarre thing was that I lost my ability to speak,” she clarified. “But oh God the thing that you realize when you have a stroke or that some people might realize is that like you start to understand that your brain is not you because there was me and then there was my brain that was malfunctioning.”

I went, “Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, how am I conscious?” at that precise moment. that even though I know the solution, my brain is unable to produce these words.”

 

 

 

“Because the paramedics were asking me questions and me as me, whatever that is, soul me, higher me, whatever me is, was going, ‘The answer is yogurt’.”

“‘What do you have for breakfast?'” they ask. And I’m thinking, “Yogurt brain,” but I was unable to accomplish it.

Plaza talked on how terrifying it was to watch her brain fail while being fully conscious of everything that was going on. This experience made her reflect a lot on how the human mind functions.

Plaza called for assistance and was taken to the emergency department. She appeared peaceful, but at first, the severity of her illness was overlooked, and she had to wait about two hours to be checked.

She talked about the extremely upsetting and distressing experience of not being able to write, speak, or interact with anyone at this time. Intensive cognitive therapy, however, allowed her brain to start mending itself when she was moved to a stroke hospital.