Brian Austin Green is opening up about facing a neurological battle that was “never completely diagnosed.”
“It was, like, stroke-like symptoms,” Green, 53, shared during his upcoming appearance on the “Really Famous” podcast, per People. “I had internal inflammation, so from diet and then, they think, just emotional stress, not handling things well.”
Green explained that his symptoms took a toll on his well-being, sharing that he couldn’t do normal activities throughout his day.
“I couldn’t read,” he recalled. “I couldn’t write. I couldn’t — who I was, essentially, was no more. My brain and my body completely disconnected.”
Green shared that the symptoms began while he was married to Megan Fox from 2010 to 2020 and took him time to fully heal. (After his marriage to Fox, Green moved on with Dancing With the Stars’ Sharna Burgess. The couple welcomed their son, Zane, in 2022. Green is also the father of son Kassius, 24, with ex Vanessa Marcil and sons Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12, and Journey, 10, with Fox.)
“It took about four and a half years to recover from,” he explained. “I had to learn how to walk again, to talk again. I had to learn how to sort of do everything again.”
Nearly three years prior, Green spoke candidly about his health journey and claimed doctors had initially diagnosed him with vertigo and ulcerative colitis. While Green was bedridden for three months, it was unclear what the illness was stemming from.
“Then these neurological things started happening after the vertigo, and that was — it was four and a half years of my life. I got to the point where I shuffled like I was a 90-year-old man,” he said during an episode of Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast in 2023.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum shared that he has since connected his health scare to a “dietary” issue.
“It was all undiagnosed by Western medicine, so I ended up having to finally find a doctor that is much more into kinesiology and Eastern medicine,” he said.
Green was ultimately told by a new physician that he had “internal inflammation from gluten and dairy,” sharing that the diagnosis came after nearly 200 blood tests and two MRIs.
“I had such brain fog that I reintroduced my best friend of, like, 25-plus years to my sister, who he had also known for 25-plus years,” he explained.
