When celebrities divorce, it can become a messy situation. Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith “had issues for years” before officially deciding to divorce, per People. Griffith only added fuel to the fire when she implied that Banderas had caused her health condition.
Page Six reported in 2017 that Griffith was at a panel for the Women’s Brain Health Initiative when she discussed her epilepsy condition. Griffith said, “It was an anomaly they didn’t know what it was — I had these seizures.” The actor suffered from the seizures for a while before realizing they occurred with stress. Griffith disclosed it wasn’t until she was in Europe that she got proper care. She said, “And then when I came back, I was diagnosed with epilepsy, which no one had said to me over a period of 20 years … no one paid enough attention to diagnose me.” Once diagnosed, Griffith better understood how to manage the seizures.
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But, it wasn’t just professional health care that she says helped to prevent her from constantly suffering from epilepsy, per Page Six. She shared, “I’ve been on a drug for four years … I haven’t had a seizure, which is amazing — but I also got divorced, which I think is the real healer for me.” Though she never mentioned Banderas specifically, the actor had recently divorced Banderas. Griffith joked that her marriage caused stress and resulted in more occurrences of epilepsy.
