Actress Tamala Jones has been in some of our favorite movies and TV shows. From being in the movies, The Wood and The Brothers with Morris Chestnut and Shemar Moore, plus numerous TV shows, her youthful face is a welcome sight on the big and small screen. On the hit television show Castle, actress Tamala Jones played the role of Lanie Parish, a smart, sarcastic medical examiner who solves some of New York City’s most heinous murders by unraveling complex medical mysteries.
In real life, Jones is committed to eradicating a different kind of villain: brain aneurysms. According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, an estimated 6 million people in the United States live with an un-ruptured brain aneurysm.
Over a decade after being diagnosed with a ruptured brain aneurysm, actress Tamala Jones has made it her mission to educate the community on the importance of personal health. Surviving a swollen and spouted blood vessel at the young age of 23, Jones is a prime example that this medical condition can happen to anyone.
After being overly self-conscious thinking herself to be weak for undergoing a possibly life-threatening condition, the Hollywood starlet recently decided to go public with her past health issues. Remembering the brutal pain and divine blessing of her aneurysm, Jones shares her near-fatal health scare in her own words.
“[I woke] up one morning with a massive headache; feeling like I had to use the bathroom, like I had to urinate really bad. When I got out of bed I had no balance. I was walking on my toes and I was stomping. I had no control over my body weight. I looked in the mirror and I’m telling you two seconds after I looked in that mirror I dropped and hit the floor.
I kept hearing myself tell myself, ‘Get up, get up now. Get up, get up, get up…,’ and I kind of woke up as if somebody shook me out of a sleep, and the whole right side of my body was numb. I called work and I told them, ‘Something’s wrong with me. I can’t come in. I have to go to the hospital.’ They told me, ‘You need to come into work. This is the last day of shooting for this season, and we don’t have time to wait for you to go to the doctor’s office.’”
“I went to the hospital after work and the doctor thought that it was a miracle that I was even alive, walking or talking, or that I even worked an entire day before I got to him. After that, I started having seizures. I had MRIs [and] cat scans, and…