Andie MacDowell is embracing aging — and everything that comes with it.
The “Four Weddings and a Funeral” actress, 66, addressed her health during an interview on Drew Barrymore’s talk show Thursday, revealing she suffers from Piriformis Syndrome.
Piriformis Syndrome is a condition that causes pain, numbness, or tingling in the buttocks, hip or upper leg and occurs when the piriformis muscle spasms and compresses the sciatic nerve, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The pain can be a mild ache to a sharp, burning sensation that sometimes feels like a jolt or electric shock, per the website.
MacDowell shared the specifics of her condition, revealing the pain was so intense that she thought she’d need a hip replacement.
“I have piriformis syndrome,” she told Barrymore, 49.
“It’s a muscle that’s, kind of clamps down on my sciatic nerve and it was shooting down my leg. I thought I was gonna have to have hip replacement. Thank God my hips are fine,” the star stated.
MacDowell said she works with a personal trainer to tame the pain, adding that her previous exercise of choice might not have been helping her issue.
“I have to work my tiny little bottom and my hips. I have to work the bottom and work my hip. I just do it every day,” the “Groundhog Day” actress shared.
MacDowell admitted that she loves to work out, but her Peloton habit wasn’t doing her any favors.
“I like to eat, but I do love to work out. That is my great fortune because I have had friends that are frustrated because they don’t enjoy it, but I really do enjoy it,” she explained.
“But most recently, what happened when I was working last season as I did the Peloton like a crazy person and it’s not appropriate for my body, and I ended up with bad knees and a bad hip, and I didn’t realize what was, I thought I was literally falling apart like I was gonna have to get new pieces,” she joked.
Luckily, “my pieces are fine,” MacDowell told Barrymore. “My knees are good except for like aging. They’ve aged. I’m working out really hard now doing PT I’m not falling apart. Well, thank God.”
MacDowell also shared that she ditched Los Angeles and is living the quiet life over 2,000 miles away from Tinseltown.
“I moved down to South Carolina and I live with a, in a community that has a lot of people my age, so it makes it really easy to socialize,” she said.
The “St Elmo’s Fire” actress also dished on her family life, revealing she’ll be a grandma again as her son, Justin Qualley, 38, is expecting a child soon.
MacDowell has three kids from her first marriage to Paul J. Qualley, including Justin and daughters, Rainey Qualley, 35, and actress Margaret Qualley, 30, who was shockingly snubbed from the Oscars nominations list for her role in “The Substance.”
While MacDowell didn’t address her daughter’s snub, she did talk about being an empty nester.
“I’ve had to work really hard on my independence, Margaret basically told me I needed to get a life. She was right,” she said.
“She’s so grown up because, you know, they did used to follow me to the bathroom. Yes, they follow you to the bathroom and then we would take, I would take baths, and they wanted to be right there with me. So they would put their feet in the bathtub and we would sit and talk,” MacDowell explained to Barrymore’s audience.
“Those days are gone. I am dying for my adult girls to come into the bathroom with me. Let me get in the bathtub and sit there with their feet in the water. I would love that, but they, you know, they don’t want to do that. And she has a husband. She has a husband. What an inconvenience,” she joked.
After divorcing her children’s father in 1999 after 13 years of marriage, MacDowell married her second husband, Rhett Hartzog, in 2001.
They ended their marriage in 2004 after nearly three years together.
