Gabrielle carteris facial paralysis
But the footage that most horrifies Carteris, 47, is a home video her husband made after Carteris suffered nerve damage while shooting a made-for-TV thriller in Vancouver in On the tape, Carteris is shown having spasms that severely impeded her speech, contorted and caused her whole body to twitch. When he finished doing it, I had lost the feeling in my hands and I started having these really bad headaches, and I [knew] something was wrong. According to Carteris, she complained during several hours of filming that the actor playing the intruder was putting too much pressure on her neck. When the pain did not subside, she insisted on going home to see her own doctor. But when I became paralyzed, I knew everything was connected




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Carteris tells ET about the life-changing injury that occurred in while she was shooting a scene for a TV movie, "We were filming an attack scene. I remember being pulled up by my chin over and over again. According to Carteris, the symptoms began almost immediately, "I was jerking around, I lost my speech and was having spasms. My face was doing wild things and I couldn't feel my hands and was having headaches. Recovery has been long and difficult for Carteris, "Sometimes I look in the mirror and cry. Sometime I look and laugh.



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The reported nerve damage caused uncontrollable spasms and today, she reveals never-before-heard details about the incident that changed her life. I spasm everyday. But in the hot tub, [it] made it more. Gabrielle wanted to document her painful experience so people would believe her and the extent of her injury. Gabrielle credits her husband, Charles, and their two children, year old Kelsey and 9-year-old Mollie, for helping her through these last two years.





Gabrielle Anne Carteris is an American actress and trade union leader. Her best known acting role was as Andrea Zuckerman during the early seasons of the s television series Beverly Hills, She assumed the position of acting president of the union following the death of the previous president, Ken Howard , on March 23, Carteris, a restaurant owner.

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