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Jay Leno Reveals a Difficult Portion of His Wife Mavis’ Dementia
Jay Leno is sharing with the public one of the very difficult things that his wife Mavis Leno’s dementia journey was.
He said the former Tonight Show host on the Nov. 20 episode of Today that Mavis was very upset because she had to endure over and over again her mother’s death.
“Most probably the most difficult part was that every day she would come to the realization that it had to be someone who called to tell her her mother had passed away,” said Mr. Leno to Hoda Kotb. “And her mother died every day for three years, at least.”
Jay Leno on Mavis Reliving Her Mother’s Death and Finding a Silver Lining
Jay Leno said it was each time as Mavis, 79, seemed to be “learning for the first time” that her mother had died.
“That was really tricky,” the 75-year-old confessed. “That makes it hard.”
Anyway, he is still trying to concentrate on what is within his power. “I know what it is, so you cannot blame her,” Jay said of her dementia.
“She is not forgetting me. That hasn’t happened yet,” he added. “She seems very relaxed now. And she seems happy, and she seems loving. It is actually OK. It is good. I like taking care of her.”
Jay Leno Spills Daily Routine With Mavis Hasn’t Changed Much — Except One Big Thing
After Mavis Leno was diagnosed with dementia, Jay Leno still sees a lot of their daily routine that they do together.
“I remember it this way: Every day after The Tonight Show I would go home, cook dinner for her, and we’d watch TV,” he said. “Just that you are not able to talk about a lot of things is the only difference.”
Jay also works hard to keep Mavis in touch with people outside of the house. Mavis is a staunch traveler, consultant, and giver—she was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for her support of Women in Afghanistan under the Taliban—and she has always loved discovering new places, so Jay does what he can to keep that sense of exploration alive.
Jay Leno on Life Changes at Home and Providing Care for Mavis Under Conservatorship
“I wish she could do it, but unfortunately, she can’t,” said Jay Leno of his wife Mavis’ preference of traveling and discovering new things. “However, there is an abundance of things on YouTube, travel and all that, and we do watch those and the animal shows and stuff like that.”
Jay, who is known to have married Mavis in 1980, decided to clarify his position as her caretaker by applying for a conservatorship over her assets in January 2024, as per the information from the documents that E! News got. The conservatorship was officially set up in April, thus allowing him to be in charge of her affairs while she goes on to live with advanced dementia.
More stars who have had their own difficult health journeys
Nikki Garcia Reveals Breast Implant Shift After WWE Match
Nikki Garcia is opening up about a painful in-ring injury. The Total Bellas alum shared that one of her breast implants shifted after taking an elbow slam from fellow WWE star Piper Niven during a July 2025 match.“It’s OK,” she told her sister Bella Garcia at the time. “We’re going to get it fixed one day. I told the doctor, I go, ‘Newly divorced, so the minute the boots are hung up, I’m going to come back to you and we’re going to make these girls look real good, because these girls are going to get some action in the future and that can’t look like that.’”
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Lupita Nyong’o’s Fibroid Fight
Uterine fibroids, which are non-cancerous growths in or around the uterus, were the cause of trouble for Lupita Nyong’o in 2014. This was also the year she got her Oscar for the movie 12 Years a Slave.
However, it was only in 2025 that she made public the secret of her fibroids, saying on Instagram that she had been “suffering in silence” for more than ten years.
“As soon as we hit puberty, we’re told that periods mean pain, and that pain is just a part of being a woman,” she explained. “We’re fighting alone with something that affects us the most.”
Brian Austin Green’s Perforated Appendix
In the month of April 2025, Brian Austin Green, the star of Beverly Hills, 90210, made a public announcement that he is recuperating post-surgery after his appendix was close to bursting.
“Just last week I began feeling some pain in my stomach,” he said in a video on Instagram. “I ended up going to the emergency room. I had a perforated appendix. It wasn’t quite a burst, but it was just before.”
He went on to say, “I am recovering. It is difficult. This is my first time I’ve been under the knife for a major operation.”
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Savannah DeMelo Suffers “Medical Emergency” During Match
Just a few minutes into her team’s Sept. 14 match against Seattle Reign at Lumen Field in Seattle, Racing Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo suffered a medical emergency.
According to Reuters, the U.S. Women’s National Team player was seen slowly sitting down on the field with a teammate by her side as the referee signaled for trainers. A moment later, she collapsed.
“Medical on site attended to Savannah immediately and she was taken to a hospital for further assessment,” the National Women’s Soccer League tweeted on X late in the evening. “She is stable and responsive.”
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Adam Devine Still Experiences the Aftermath of His Childhood Accident
Adam Devine shared that the impact that a cement truck had on him when he was 11 years old still haunts him.
“It’s been a nightmare,” said the actor on a 2025 episode of the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. “I have spasms all over. For quite some time, they were telling me that I was dying—they literally told that within this last year.”
Indeed, he said that the agony is sometimes absent and sometimes present, and also that his “body is full of things that are a bit off and a bit faulty.”
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Jason Tartick Details Severe Back Injury That Left Him “Crawling on All Fours”
During an RV trip with a friend, back pain that Jason Tartick had escalated to such a point that he ended up in the hospital “crawling on all fours”.
“The tingling goes from my knees to my toes, it’s still, like, crazy,” he explained on his Trading Secrets podcast, episode of March 2025. “Not that I want to sound like a douche, but like two, three weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was probably squatting around 295 pounds. And currently, I am not able to perform a squat with one leg. I cannot do a one-legged squat as I fall. It feels as if I have had a stroke or something.”
He also said that with the help of a back specialist and steroids, “We are getting better.”
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Christy Carlson Romano Accidental Gunshot in the Face During Clay Pigeon Outing
Christy Carlson Romano shared that a clay pigeon shooting outing during husband Brendan Rooney’s birthday in February 2025, ended with her being shot in the face.
“Another party was with us, and they fired unsafely in the wrong direction and shot me in the face,” the Even Stevens alum wrote on Instagram. Her husband “without delay took action, evaluated me, and got me to the hospital in a hurry.” She continued, “I was wearing my right eye close to less than an inch from a total of five places I was hit, one of which was.”
One fragment is still behind her eye and, too dangerous to remove, she is for now able to see normally.
“The moment of my life flashing before my eyes, I could not help but think of it,” she said, and at the same time, she implored people to “keep hugging the people that are around you. Life can turn in a snap.”
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Amy Schumer Credits Online Trolls for Cushing Syndrome Diagnosis
Amy Schumer says that online trolling led in an unexpected way to her diagnosis that saved her life.
After people ridiculed her “puffy” face during a press tour, some doctors suggested that her looks might be indicative of Cushing syndrome, which is a condition that is frequently associated with elevated cortisol or steroid use.
“I’m like, ‘Wait, doctors are trolling me?’” she joked on a January 2025 episode of Call Her Daddy. Then it dawned on her: “I have been getting steroids injected into my scars.”
“I explained, ‘I had a breast reduction, a C-section, whatever, and so I was getting these steroid injections,’” she said. “So it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t have known if the internet hadn’t come for me so hard.”
In a February 2024 News Not Noise newsletter, Amy said that finding out she had a type of Cushing that was going to spontaneously heal was “the greatest news imaginable.”
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Hailey Bieber Recalls Horrible Moment When She Had a Mini-Stroke After Blood Clot
In her YouTube video from April 2022, she said, ”Justin was like, ‘Are you OK?’ When I tried to say something, I couldn’t speak. The right side of my face was drooping. I didn’t know how to say it.”
The facial droop and speech problems that she had went away fast, but at the hospital, scans revealed that she had a small blood clot in her brain and it was called a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack).
Additional examinations at UCLA showed Hailey had a patent foramen ovale (PFO) – a hole in her heart which was the cause of the clot that “escaped” to her brain.
Hailey had PFO closed in a procedure that was successful and she later announced that now she is feeling great.
Justin Bieber’s Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
In June 2022, the “Baby” singer announced that he had Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which is a pretty rare situation in which a virus attacks the facial and ear nerves, causing the patient to have temporary facial paralysis. Thus, Justin had to cancel the rest of his Justice World Tour.
On Instagram, he shared, “The virus is the one that goes after the nerve in my ear and my facial nerves, and as a result, my face has had paralysis. You can see that this eye is not blinking. I can’t smile on this side of my face… Therefore, there is complete paralysis on this side of my face.”
He said that “it became progressively more difficult to eat,” but eventually, the paralysis went away.
“He is really great,” Hailey said on Good Morning America, referring to it as “very scary and random,” but adding, “he will be totally fine.”
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Jamie Foxx Brain Bleed and Stroke: Reveals He Was In Hospital for Weeks
While filming in Atlanta, he said, “The headache was killing me so I asked my friend, ‘Look, I need an aspirin.’” In his 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was…. he continued, “Just as I was going to get the aspirin, I passed out. I don’t remember 20 days at all.”
After a short cortisone shot and being sent home, his sister Deidra Dixon didn’t like it and took him to the hospital where a brain bleed that led to a stroke was found by the doctors.
Foxx, 20 days after the operation, on May 4, woke up to find himself in a wheelchair, unable to walk, and subsequently went to Chicago for rehab and therapy.
“The only thing I can say is that I am grateful for every single prayer.” he said. “Because I was in need of every prayer.”
Tracey Yukich’s Near-Death Medical Emergency on The Biggest Loser
“I don’t recall much,” she mentioned in the Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser interview. “I remember hearing the helicopter. I just felt like I was leaving my body. And then my grandpa was there. And then I saw darkness. But then I saw light. So I definitely knew that I died that day.”
“My organs were actually going to be shut down one by one,” she added. “I didn’t have a clue that I had rhabdomyolysis. And rhabdomyolysis is basically a message from your body that it’s time to shut down.”
Emilia Clarke Brain Aneurysm: Life on the Edge During Game of Thrones
Being at the gym, she was abruptly shaken by a very severe headache. “I made it to the bathroom, dropped to my knees, and threw up violently and in large amounts,” she wrote. “The pain—terrible, shooting, stabbing, and constricting—was getting more intense. I sort of knew it was my brain that was damaged.”
Clarke was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The very brief and quite scary moment of the diagnosis: subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), i.e., a stroke of a kind most dangerous to life, caused by bleeding in the space around the brain,” the Emmy nominee remembered. “I had an aneurysm, a rupture of an artery.”
Emilia Clarke Secretly Fought Brain Aneurysm While Filming Game of Thrones
While exercising in the gym, she was suddenly and painfully hit with severe headache. “I got to the bathroom, dropped to my knees, and started being violently, voluminously ill,” she wrote. “The pain—shooting, stabbing, tightening—was becoming more and more terrible. At some level I did realize it: my brain was damaged,” she told.
After a scan Clarke was hurried to hospital with a “quick and ominous” diagnosis: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a very serious kind of stroke that results from bleeding around the brain. “I had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture,” the Emmy nominee remembered.
Cori Broadus’s Stroke
“I texted them saying I just had a stroke and also sent them a picture,” she told E! News’ Will Marfuggi in December 2024. “So, everybody came to my rescue.”
Cori could have gone home very shortly, but she decided to stay at the hospital for a while due to her lupus complications. “My kidneys were failing. There was a lot going on,” said the Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne’s Story star.
At present, she says she is getting better and is doing well. “I am fine. I just had a small portion of motor skills that I had to regain,” Cori told. “But aside from that, I was okay.”
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Shailene Woodley Breaks the Silence About “Mixing” of Her Secret Health Problems
“It got to a point that I was losing my hearing. I could not walk for more than five minutes without the need to lie down for hours and sleep. Anything I ate would hurt my stomach,” she told on the SHE MD podcast in September 2024. “It was a conflation of issues and diagnoses, and I had different doctors telling me different things.”
Shailene, however, decided not to disclose her exact condition but was determined by all means to find the solution.
“I am from a very holistic family and I also study herbalism,” she said. “So I was very focused on, ‘I will work with real MDs, [and] I will also work with maverick healers.’ Just trying to find some way of comfort in my own skin.”
Shailene Woodley Reveals Her 10 Years of Health Battle Impacted Her Physically and Mentally
“During that ten years, a lot of things, in fact, came from the very unfortunate nature of the physical side of the story,” said the actress of Big Little Lies appearing on the SHE MD podcast. “If it is the case that everything I eat causes pain in my stomach, then naturally I become terrified of food.” According to her, this terror led to “the kind of mental f–ckery that can happen with that of body dysmorphia and confusion about identity and feeling safe in my own capsule, in my own skin.”
She has made it through to the other side with her physical and mental health.
“It was a journey that in the end, it was a physical one and it was resolved, and now I am very fit,” Shailene announced. “I’m very glad to be able to say that.”
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