Liev Schreiber has been hospitalized in New York City.
Schreiber, 58, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday, November 16, after suffering from a massive headache and alerting his doctor, TMZ reported. Schreiber, who was able to fully speak, walk, and use his limbs, was instructed to go to the hospital, per the outlet. He underwent several tests and remained there overnight. It’s unclear what occurred.
“Out of an abundance of caution, Liev went into the hospital for testing and as of this afternoon, he has been cleared to return to work,” his representative later told People in a Monday, November 17, statement.
This isn’t the first time Schreiber has suffered from a scary headache. Last year, Schreiber opened up about experiencing severe head pain that led to him having amnesia during a performance of the Broadway play Doubt: A Parable.
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“I do the first six or seven lines of the play, sort of automatically. I realized I’m not connected, so I decide, ‘Let me try to get connected again,’” he recalled during an April 2024 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “And the minute I do that, it all vanishes. The play is gone from my head.”
Schreiber explained he knew he was in a play, but could not remember which production.
“I look down at my clothes and I realize I’m a priest, which is helpful but not giving me any lines,” he reflected. “I come off stage, they are all very worried about me, I can see. They rush me to my dressing room. The next thing I remember is hearing my understudy doing the lines from the play and thinking, ‘It sounds really good. I wish I knew what it was.’”
While backstage, Schreiber’s doctor and wife Taylor Neisen arrived to see him. The actor recalled both of them looking “terrified,” leading him to believe he suffered a stroke.
Luckily, that wasn’t the case. “I go get the MRI, no brain bleed. Perfectly fine,” Schreiber said while joking that the professional who conducted the MRI told him he had a “fairly good looking brain.”
The neurologist instead told Schreiber that he had transient global amnesia. According to the Mayo Clinic, transient global amnesia is an episode of confusion that comes on suddenly in a person who is otherwise alert. It is not caused by neurological conditions, like epilepsy or stroke. The condition typically affects middle-aged or older people.
“Apparently my wife looked it up online, it’s brought on by migraines and rigorous coitus,” Schreiber recalled. “My wife then asked me what coitus is … and I said, ‘Honey, that’s sex and so it’s, like, rough sex. And she said, ‘Oh, you were having rough sex?’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, I had a headache.’”
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After getting checked out by the medical team, Schreiber was told that the condition would be gone “in eight to 24 hours” which he “didn’t believe.”
“As a typical Jewish hypochondriac person, I’m convinced I had a stroke and they just didn’t find it,” he recalled. “I go home, I’m having paranoid episodes about our guests who are in the house. I just figured I’d better go to sleep because I’m going to say something dumb.”
When he woke up the next day, Schreiber remembered everything he had forgotten from the previous day and wanted to go right back to work. However, his doctor advised him to rest a little bit longer.
