While a competitor on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2017, Frankie Muniz was quoted as saying that he was unsure how his problems with memory loss began (per ET). However, on a 2022 episode of the Barstool Sports podcast “Pardon My Take,” Muniz claimed that the interview clips were edited to make it seem as though his memory was worse than it was (via Us Weekly). Said Muniz, “Now if you search my name, it basically says I don’t remember anything — like ’50 First Dates,’ my wife has to wake up every morning and plays me a video.” While he said that he can remember having played Malcolm on “Malcolm in the Middle,” for example, he cannot remember every detail of it.
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Muniz clarified that he was previously misdiagnosed with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Per the Mayo Clinic, the symptoms of a TIA resemble those of a stroke but are not. Muniz added on the podcast episode that he was eventually diagnosed as having aura migraines, not TIAs, and that he had not had one in years but has not determined what triggered the migraines.
