Tim Curry Shares He “Still Can’t Walk” After Stroke

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Tim Curry hasn’t yet reached full recovery. 

After experiencing a stroke almost 13 years ago, the 79-year-old has revealed he continues to have difficulty regaining movement in his legs.

“I’m still unable to walk, and that’s why I’m using this wheelchair,” Curry explained to the audience at a special showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which celebrated the film’s 50th anniversary on September 26, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s quite restricting.”

The actor-best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show-explained that he doesn’t anticipate being able to walk for a long time. 

“I won’t be singing and I won’t be dancing anytime soon,” he said with a laugh. “I’m still having significant issues with my left leg.”

Curry had a stroke in 2012. Although the health issue continues to affect his physical abilities, the Clue star shared that he didn’t realize he was having a medical emergency at the time.

I was getting a massage and didn’t even realize anything was wrong,” Curry remembered. “But the masseuse said, ‘I’m concerned about you, I think we should call an ambulance.’ He went ahead and did, and I thought it was completely unnecessary.

This isn’t the first time Curry has shared news about how he’s recovering. A year after the difficult event, his agent announced that he’d suffered a stroke, but emphasized that he was “doing great.”

According to his representative, “Tim is doing great,” as they told the Daily Mail. They added that he can definitely speak and is currently recovering with a positive attitude.

Curry expressed his joy at being well enough to participate in the celebration of The Rocky Horror Picture Show-which also features Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf-and acknowledged the film’s significant impact on cinema over the past five decades.

I was so thrilled to hear him say, during the event on Sept. 26, “I’m so excited by this and very honored by the Academy to do this presentation of our movie, which has dragged on for 50 years.” It really meant a lot to me, as a long-time fan, to hear him express his feelings about the film and its journey.

For more stars who have got candid about their health scares, keep reading. 

The former star of Total Bellas shared that one of her breast implants moved after being hit in the chest by Piper Niven, another WWE wrestler, during a match in July 2025.

“It’s okay,” she reassured her sister, Bella Garcia at the time. “We’ll get it fixed eventually. I explained to the doctor, ‘Now that I’m newly divorced, as soon as I retire, I’ll come back to you and we’ll make these horses look their best, because they’re going to be competing again, and they can’t look like this.’”

The 12 Years a Slave actress received a diagnosis of uterine fibroids-harmless growths that form on or near the uterus-in 2014, which was also the year she earned an Oscar for her role in the film.

She didn’t share her diagnosis publicly until 2025, when she wrote on Instagram that she had been “suffering in silence” for over ten years. It had been a long and private struggle.

Ugh, it’s just… growing up, they *always* told us periods were supposed to hurt, like it was just something we, as women, had to deal with! It’s so frustrating because it feels like we’re all just supposed to suffer in silence, dealing with something that affects so many of us, but we’re all doing it alone. It’s like, why is that the expectation?!

 

In July 2025, the Daisy Jones & The Six star revealed she needed to be hospitalized for a hernia-which is a weak spot in the abdominal or groin muscles-and explained it was caused by wearing very tight pants.

“Suki, you haven’t been posting on X (formerly Twitter) lately,” she wrote. “Have you ever thought about the fact that I wore pants so tight six months ago that I got a hernia, and I’ve been afraid to mention it to you?“

The Beverly Hills, 90210 actor shared in April 2025 that he was getting better after having surgery because his appendix almost ruptured.

“Last week, I began experiencing stomach pain,” Brian shared in an Instagram video. “I went to the emergency room and discovered I had a perforated appendix-it hadn’t quite burst yet, but it was very close.”

He added, “I’m on the road to recovery. It’s not an easy process. This is my first major surgery.”

The Racing Louisville midfielder suddenly fell to the ground early in her team’s game against the Seattle Reign on September 14th. The match was held at Lumen Field in Seattle.

According to Reuters, the United States Women’s National Team player was seen slowly sitting down on the field with a teammate supporting her, as the referee signaled for medical staff to assess her condition. She then collapsed just moments later.

According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) that night, Savannah received immediate medical attention on the field and was taken to a nearby hospital for more tests. The National Women’s Soccer League reported she is currently stable and alert.

Adam Devine revealed that he continues to experience effects from injuries he suffered as a child. He was hit by a cement truck when he was 11 years old, and the consequences are still felt today.

“It’s been incredibly difficult,” Devine explained on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast in 2025. “I experience muscle spasms everywhere. Recently-within the past year-doctors actually told me my life was in danger.”

He mentioned that pain is often temporary, explaining, “My body has some quirks and isn’t quite perfect.”

The Bachelor Nation alum revealed he had to go to the hospital while crawling on all fours because of severe back pain. The pain got worse during a road trip he took with a friend.

“Currently, my knees are still tingling all the way to my toes, which is really strange,” he shared on a March 2025 episode of his Trading Secrets podcast. “To give you some context, I don’t want to sound arrogant, but just two or three weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was squatting around 295 pounds. Now, I can’t even do a squat on that foot. I can’t do a single-leg squat; I fall over. It feels like I’ve had a stroke or something.”

But with the help of a back specialist and some steroids, he added, “We’re on the mend.”

Real Housewives of Orange County’s Gina Kirschenheiter revealed that her former husband, Matt Kirschenheiter, had a heart attack in March 2025, but he fortunately pulled through.

The 30 Rock actor experienced a medical issue while attending a New York Knicks game in March 2025, and was subsequently taken out of Madison Square Garden in a wheelchair.

But the comedian later posted an update on social media, explaining that he had actually suffered from food poisoning and was recovering well.

The former Even Stevens star revealed in February 2025 that she was shot in the face during a birthday trip with her husband, Brendan Rooney. They were shooting clay pigeons at the time.

She explained on Instagram that another group was with them and carelessly fired a weapon in the wrong direction, hitting her in the face. @thebrendanrooney quickly helped, checked her condition, and took her to the hospital. She was struck five times, with one shot coming within an inch of her right eye.

The Kim Possible star explained, “Sadly, a small piece became stuck behind my eye, and doctors believe it’s too dangerous to try and remove it with surgery right now. They will keep checking on me-I have normal vision currently.”

The actress expressed her thankfulness for being alive. “I cherish my daughters, husband, family, and friends immensely,” she stated. “I truly felt my life pass before me, and I want to tell everyone: embrace your loved ones whenever you get the opportunity. Things can change so quickly.”

While the internet isn’t always a kind place, Amy Schumer is happy that, in this case, it helped her get answers.

“The internet really came for me after doing a bunch of press, and I was like, ‘OK everybody, relax,'” Amy recalled of her “puffier” face on a January 2025 episode of Call Her Daddy. “But then doctors were chiming in in the comments and they were like, ‘No no, we think something’s really up. Your face looks so crazy that we think something’s up. And I’m like, ‘Wait, I’m getting trolled by doctors?’”

After these doctors said they thought she had Cushing syndrome and that it may be caused by spiking coritsol levels or steroid injections, the Life & Beth creator thought, “Wait, I have been getting steroid injections in my scars.”

“I had a breast reduction, a C-section, whatever, and so I was getting these steroid injections,” Amy said. “So it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t have known if the internet hadn’t come for me so hard.”

Toda, Amy is just relieved she’s OK. As she shared in a February 2024 News Not Noise newsletter, “Finding out I have the kind of Cushing that will just work itself out and I’m healthy was the greatest news imaginable.”

During a game in December 2024, an AHL player suffered a cut from another player’s skate and needed 25 stitches to close the wound. After his son made a full recovery, his father, Tom Fitzgerald, the general manager of the New Jersey Devils, shared with ESPN, “We’re very lucky. I wouldn’t want that to happen to any parent.”

Hailey Bieber had the “scariest moment” of her life when she was having breakfast with husband Justin Bieber and started experiencing stroke-like symptoms in March 2022.

“Justin was like, ‘Are you OK?'” the Rhode skincare mogul shared a month later on YouTube, “and I just didn’t respond because I wasn’t sure. And then he asked me again and when I went to respond, I couldn’t speak. The right side of my face started drooping. I couldn’t get a sentence out.”

While Hailey said the facial drooping stopped and her speech came back, she went to the hospital to make sure she was OK.

“They did some scans and they were able to see that I had suffered a small blood clot to my brain,” the model added, “which they labeled and categorized as something called a TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack].”

Later, Hailey went to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she found out she had a hole in her heart called a patent foramen ovale (PFO).

She explained the blood clot had traveled into her heart, “escaped” through the hole and went to her brain, leading to the TIA.

Hailey said she had a successful PFO closure procedure and was now feeling great.

The year Hailey faced a health issue, Justin also went through a difficult time.

In June 2022, the “Baby” singer revealed he had been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a condition that temporarily paralyzed parts of his face and led him to cancel the remaining dates of his Justice World Tour.

In a video posted to Instagram, Justin explained, “This virus attacks the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves, causing paralysis on my face.” He showed how he couldn’t blink with one eye, smile on one side, or move a nostril, demonstrating the full paralysis on that side.

He also shared with his fans that it had become “increasingly difficult to eat.” Fortunately, the paralysis eventually subsided.

“He’s doing really well,” Hailey said on Good Morning America in June 2022, adding, “He’s feeling much better. It was a very frightening and unexpected situation, but he’s going to be completely fine, and I’m so thankful he’s okay.”

Initially, Jamie Foxx kept the details of his hospitalization in April 2023 confidential, but he eventually shared his experience.

He recounted that one day in Atlanta, he had a severe headache and asked a friend for aspirin. “Before I could get the Aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days,” he explained in his 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was…

Jamie stated he first visited a doctor who gave him a cortisone shot and sent him home. However, his sister, Deidra Dixon, worried about his condition, drove him to a hospital where doctors discovered he had a brain bleed which resulted in a stroke.

Twenty days after surgery, the Django Unchainedactor woke up on May 4th in a wheelchair and unable to walk. He then traveled to Chicago for rehabilitation and therapy.

“All I can tell you is that I appreciate every prayer,” he shared, “because I needed every prayer.”

The television personality shared that she experienced a moment akin to “dying” while jogging a mile during the initial competition of the NBC series.

“I don’t recall much,” she shared on Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser. “I remember the sound of the helicopter. It felt like I was drifting, and then I saw my grandpa. After that, everything went dark, but then I saw light again. That’s when I knew-I knew I had died that day.”

“My organs were basically failing,” she went on to explain. “I didn’t know I had rhabdomyolysis. And rhabdomyolysis is what your body does when it’s about to shut down.”

Emilia Clarke is known for filming intense battle scenes in Game of Thrones, but in 2019 she revealed a personal battle in an essay for The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.”

She described experiencing a severe headache while at the gym, writing, “I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill.” The pain – sharp, stabbing, and squeezing – worsened, and she realized something was seriously wrong with her brain.

She was rushed to the hospital for a brain scan.

“The diagnosis came quickly and was frightening: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening stroke caused by bleeding around the brain,” the Emmy nominee explained. “I had an aneurysm, a burst blood vessel.”

Emilia underwent immediate surgery to repair the aneurysm, describing the pain as “unbearable.” While recovering, she experienced aphasia, leaving her unable to speak clearly and “muttering nonsense.”

Fortunately, “the aphasia passed” after a week, and Emilia was discharged from the hospital a month after being admitted.

A 2013 brain scan revealed that a growth had “doubled in size,” requiring a second surgery.

“When I woke up, I was screaming in pain,” she wrote. “The surgery hadn’t worked. I had a major bleed, and the doctors told me my chances of survival were low unless they operated again. This time, they would have to access my brain by opening my skull.”

Thankfully, Emilia shared, she is now “at a hundred per cent.”

Snoop Dogg‘s daughter, Cori Broadus, feels thankful for the support of her family.

This came after she experienced a “severe stroke” in January 2024, and her family quickly came to her side.

“I texted them that I had a stroke and sent a picture,” she shared with  TopMob News correspondent Will Marfuggi in December 2024. “Everyone immediately came to my rescue.”

Due to other health issues, Cori ended up needing to stay in the hospital for a longer period than she anticipated.

“I could have been discharged after the stroke, but my lupus wasn’t stable,” explained the Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne’s Story star. “My kidneys were also failing. There was a lot happening at once.”

Currently, Cori is recovering well.

“I’m doing great,” she said. “I just needed to regain some motor skills, but otherwise, I’m fine.”

Shailene Woodley experienced significant health challenges during her early twenties.

“I got to the point where my hearing was failing, and I couldn’t walk for more than five minutes without needing to rest for hours and sleep. Everything I ate caused me stomach pain,” the actress explained on a September 2024 episode of the SHE MD Podcast. “It was a combination of problems, diagnoses, and different doctors offering conflicting advice.”

Shailene-who has chosen to keep the specific condition private-began searching for answers.

“I come from a background that emphasizes holistic health and I study herbalism,” she added. “So I was determined to work with both traditional doctors [and] independent healers, hoping to find some relief and comfort.”

It was a lengthy process-lasting a full decade.

“Over that ten-year period, a lot of other issues arose from feeling so physically uncomfortable,” the Big Little Lies star noted, “like becoming afraid of food because everything hurt my stomach. That led to mental struggles with body image, confusion about who I was, and feeling safe in my own body.”

After addressing both her physical and mental wellbeing, Shailene is now doing much better.

“It was a journey that eventually resolved itself physically, and I’m very healthy,” she shared. “I’m so grateful to be able to say that.

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