{"id":388068,"date":"2025-11-18T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388068\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:51:11","slug":"liev-schreiber-hospitalized-for-testing-after-health-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388068\/","title":{"rendered":"Liev Schreiber hospitalized for testing after health scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liev Schreiber<\/a> has been giving the all clear after being hospitalized in New York City on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n

“Out of an abundance of caution, Schreiber went into the hospital for testing and as of [Monday] afternoon, he has been cleared to return to work,” a representative for the star said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n

The health scare occurred on Sunday, when the Ray Donovan<\/a> star suffered a “massive headache” and alerted his doctor, TMZ<\/a>\u00a0reported Monday. Said doctor recommended that the Emmy nominee “immediately” go to the hospital to get checked out, according to the outlet.\n<\/p>\n

Schreiber, 58, was held overnight and underwent several tests. No further details on what was ailing the actor have been provided.\n<\/p>\n

Liev Schreiber.<\/p>\n

Amy Sussman\/Getty<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time that the The Perfect Couple<\/a> actor has had a health scare associated with a headache.\n<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/a> last April, Schreiber recalled a migraine that led to him having\u00a0temporary amnesia<\/a> while performing in the\u00a02024 Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play\u00a0Doubt: A Parable<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“[It was] the worst nightmare that an actor could possibly ever experience,” the actor, who earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Father Flynn, told Meyers. “I was in my dressing room and I had a terrible headache. I thought it was maybe a fast food headache, but it felt a little stronger than that. I’m walking down the stairs and I’m thinking, ‘This is not normal. I don’t feel okay.'”\n<\/p>\n

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Schreiber said he knew “something was really wrong” when he saw costar Amy Ryan<\/a> backstage and couldn’t remember her name. Things only got worse when he went on stage and completely forgot his lines.\n<\/p>\n

“It all vanishes. The play is gone from my head … I know I’m in a play but I don’t know what play I’m in,” Schreiber remembered. “My doctor, who’s a friend, shows up and he had a terrified expression. My wife shows up, she looks terrified. I think, ‘Okay, I’ve had a stroke. This is it.'”\n<\/p>\n

Luckily, an MRI showed that his brain looked “perfectly fine,” and that there was no brain bleed. A neurologist explained to the actor that he had a condition called transient global amnesia.\n<\/p>\n

“Apparently it’s brought on by migraines and rigorous coitus,” Schreiber shared. “The guy said, ‘You’ll never have this again and it’ll be gone in eight to 24 hours,’ which I didn’t believe. You know, as a typical sort of Jewish hypochondriac person, I’m convinced that I had a stroke and they just didn’t find it.”\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

However, the doctor was proven to be right. “I go to sleep, I wake up, I remember the whole play,” Schreiber added. “I never had another problem with it. I was embarrassed and thought everyone would think I was lying and taking a night off from the theater.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a rare medical condition in which an individual experiences a sudden episode of memory loss and confusion. Triggers of the condition include migraines, physical exertion, sexual intercourse, emotional or psychological stress and sudden immersion in cold or hot water.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

TGA is most common in people of middle or older age, and it will resolve itself within 24 hours. There are no long-term effects of the condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liev Schreiber has been giving the all clear after being hospitalized in New York City on Sunday. “Out…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115571974808587080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}