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Posted: 2024-09-12T22:28:26Z | Updated: 2024-09-12T22:28:26Z

Aubrey Plaza is sharing harrowing new details about the experience of having a stroke at just 20 years old.

Appearing on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday, Plaza said she was briefly paralyzed and left unable to speak after the stroke, which took place when she was still a student at New York University.

It happened mid-sentence, the Parks and Recreation and White Lotus actor explained. I took the train to Astoria [in Queens, New York] to have lunch with my friends. I walked into their apartment ... I hadnt even taken my jacket off and in mid-sentence, it just happened. Thats when I was paralyzed.

Noting that she was able to regain some of her motor skills after about a minute, she added, The freakiest thing was that I forgot how to talk ... it was terrifying. I thought Id never speak again.

Plaza, a Delaware native, has acknowledged having a stroke in the past. In a 2017 interview with NPRs Fresh Air, the actor recalled how paramedics initially thought she was dehydrated or had been using drugs given her young age. She also attributed the stroke to her use of a birth control pill which she no longer takes.

Watch a clip of Aubrey Plazas Howard Stern Show interview below.

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