“In Depth With Graham Bensinger” podcast. “They don’t really know. For a while, they told me I was dying. Literally within this last year, they told me that.”The “Modern Family” alum was first told that he had Stiff Person Syndrome, which is a “rare autoimmune neurological disorder that most commonly causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms that come and go and can worsen over time,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. “They told me that I have that literally a month before my son, Beau, was born,” Devine shared. “And so I’m like, ‘Oh great, now I’m gonna die.
He’s gonna be six years old and only know a crippled father.’”As months went by, Devine, 41, felt tightness in his muscles increase, prompting him to see a medical expert who coined the phrase “Stiff Person Syndrome,” according to Devine.While the “Jexi” actor didn’t name the medical professional, the expert allegedly denied that the actor had the disorder, and suggested the comedian’s symptoms were a response to him being hit by a cement truck years ago.“He’s like, ‘This is from your accident when you were a child,’” Devine added. “‘The spasms are a little unexplainable, but it could just be [that] you got so tight that your body doesn’t know what to do with it so you’re misfiring a little bit.’”Devine was hit by a 42-ton cement truck when he was 11 years old while crossing the street.He confessed that at the time that he and his friend were on their way to the store to get candy and rip out pages from Playboy magazines.When they reached a busy street, his pal crossed first, before Devine assumed the coast was clear for him to cross next.“I walked out, and I got clobbered, and taken under the wheel, and spit out, and I flew like 500 feet, they said, and [I].