Joan\u2019s own patient journey there began in 2011, following a back injury. \u201cI was in LA filming this television series called American Horror Story \u2013 and it was indeed a horror story,\u201d she quips. \u201cAll of the cast were sitting around on this incredibly cold soundstage, which had been built on the Paramount lot. The whole crew were wearing scarves and sitting in chairs with no backs for weeks. I remember waking up in the middle of the night in screaming agony, so my husband, Percy, called Dr Lawrence Piro, the medical director of Cedars\u2011Sinai, who I had met before socially. He sent an ambulance and within five or 10 minutes I was in Cedars being taken care of, which was wonderful. From then on I would go and visit him whenever I was in LA, because I believe that taking care of yourself is one of the most important things.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems that Dame Joan\u2019s back has been an ongoing concern in recent years \u2013 in July 2022 she was airlifted to the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco, having been rendered immobile by a trapped nerve. It stopped her exercising for some time, but she\u2019s mobile again and impressively agile. \u201cI work out with my trainer a couple of times a week \u2013 just basic Pilates-type exercise, rather than using one of those [reformer] pilates machines, though,\u201d she clarifies.<\/p>\n
Recalling her previously saying that she took morning walks with Percy, I ask whether that\u2019s still part of her daily routine. She looks appalled. \u201cI hate walking \u2013 it bores me,\u201d she cries. \u201cI\u2019ll walk around my apartment tweaking the flowers, but that\u2019s about it.\u201d Turning to Dr Piro, she says: \u201cThat sounds so ridiculous, and it will look ridiculous when you see it in print, but it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan\u2019s own patient journey there began in 2011, following a back injury. \u201cI was in LA filming this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[29326,458,500,146,536,2085,85,46,32574,2865,17725,152693],"class_list":["post-454144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ageing","tag-celebrities","tag-conditions","tag-entertainment","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-hollywood","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-private-healthcare","tag-standard","tag-top-story","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}