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After appearing in recent episodes of Hacks and Abbott Elementary, the actress revealed that she developed Bell<\/a>\u2019s palsy in August 2024, temporarily paralyzing her face while filming Netflix<\/a>\u2018s Sirens<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of sitting out and waiting for it to get better just was not an option,\u201d Weedman told Huffington Post<\/a> of the condition, which resulted in the right side of her face completely freezing, the inability to align her lips or close her right eye, headaches and general malaise.<\/p>\n Weedman added, \u201cI wanted to talk to [the Sirens<\/a> team] about it as soon as I could so I wouldn\u2019t be stressed the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n Sirens<\/a> creator Molly Smith Metzler<\/a> explained, \u201cAt that point, I had fallen in love with Lauren like everyone else had. I just felt awful that she was going through something like that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following years as a recognizable character actress, Lauren Weedman had quite the trying year for her onscreen career. After appearing in recent episodes of Hacks and Abbott Elementary, the actress revealed that she developed Bell\u2019s palsy in August 2024, temporarily paralyzing her face while filming Netflix\u2018s Sirens. \u201cThe idea of sitting out and waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2054729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2054728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Weedman-Opens-Up-About-Bells-Palsy-Era-As-TV.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}