Actress Aubrey Plaza Says She Was Briefly Paralyzed, Unable to Speak After Stroke at Age 20

The medical emergency made the actress fear she had lost her ability to speak permanently.
Actress Aubrey Plaza Says She Was Briefly Paralyzed, Unable to Speak After Stroke at Age 20
Aubrey Plaza attends the 2022 Gotham Awards in New York City on Nov. 28, 2022. Theo Wargo/Getty Images
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“The White Lotus” star Aubrey Plaza recounted a frightening health scare she faced when she was 20 years old, which briefly impaired her speech and resulted in temporary paralysis of the left side of her body.

During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” aired on Sept. 11, Plaza, now 40, described the aftermath of a stroke she suffered when she was a college student attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.