‘Just more of a mystery’: Miranda Cosgrove speaks out on health battle that left her with hole in her leg
Miranda Cosgrove said that she was left with a hole in her leg after undergoing a surgery 10 years ago following a tour bush crash.
The Los Angeles native, 28, appeared Wednesday on the podcast Hypochondriactor with Sean Hayes and Dr. Priyanka Wali, where she opened up about her condition, which she said doctors could not explain.
The iCarly actress said the injury looks as if ‘somebody punctured through completely and cut a hole’ in her leg.
The latest: Miranda Cosgrove, 28, said that she was left with a hole in her leg after undergoing a surgery 10 years ago following a tour bush crash. She was snapped in March in Santa Monica, California
Cosgrove was initially injured in 2011 when her tour bus she was riding on crashed, and she broke her ankle. She said on the podcast that she discovered the presence of the hole in her leg, which is about five inches above her ankle, following the removal of a cast.
‘It was so strange, because when I woke up, I had a cast on, like a soft cast, and then later I went back and they removed it,’ she said. ‘And then that’s when I noticed the hole.
‘And I was asking questions like, “What’s this? What’s that?” And then I was like, ‘Wait, why is there a hole in my leg?” So they were like, “Oh, we didn’t do that.”‘
She said that a scab eventually grew on the spot of the hole, ‘but you could tell it was like somebody punctured through completely and cut a hole.’
Details: Cosgrove was initially injured in 2011 when her tour bus she was riding on crashed, and she broke her ankle
Cosgrove noted that the ‘weird thing’ was that she was not in any pain from the hole, which she described as ‘just more of a mystery’
Wali said that while she had theories as to how the hole got there, ‘the thing is, your surgeon would know that they did that.’
Hayes added, ‘I just picture these surgeons, while you’re under, standing next to each other, like a room full of like eight people surrounding your body, while they’re working on your ankle, while you’re under anesthesia going, “Hey, did you? Did you make that?” “No, I didn’t. I didn’t make that. Did you?” “No, I didn’t.”‘
Cosgrove noted that the ‘weird thing’ was that she was not in any pain from the hole, which she described as ‘just more of a mystery.’
She added, ‘The one answer that I did get, and you can tell me if this makes any sense, was the physical therapist told me sometimes they have to drain blood from your foot during the surgery, and that they have to put a hole to fix that. Does that make sense?’
Wali told Cosgrove she ‘wouldn’t rule it out,’ and that she ‘deserved an answer’ about the hole.
‘If they’re going to put you under and do things to your body, you deserve to know what holes are being put in,’ Wali said.