GOSSIP & RUMORS: Adam Devine told by doctors he was dying after severe health complications from childhood accident

Adam Devine has revealed that doctors told him he may be dying due to the long-term injuries he sustained after being hit by a cement truck as a child.

The actor, known for his roles in “Pitch Perfect” and “Modern Family,” was told he had Stiff Person Syndrome — a rare neurological disorder — that would cut years off his life.

After doing some digging, doctors soon discovered that his health issues were actually linked to the childhood crash.

“I was having spasms all over and I still kind of do,” DeVine shared on Wednesday’s episode of the “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” podcast. “They don’t really know. For a while, they told me I was dying. Literally within this last year, they told me that.”

The “Modern Family” alum was first told that he had Stiff Person Syndrome, which is a “rare autoimmune neurological disorder that most commonly causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms that come and go and can worsen over time,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. 

“They told me that I have that literally a month before my son, Beau, was born,” Devine shared. “And so I’m like, ‘Oh great, now I’m gonna die. He’s gonna be six years old and only know a crippled father.’”

As months went by, Devine, 41, felt tightness in his muscles increase, prompting him to see a medical expert who coined the phrase “Stiff Person Syndrome,” according to Devine.

While the “Jexi” actor didn’t name the medical professional, the expert allegedly denied that the actor had the disorder, and suggested the comedian’s symptoms were a response to him being hit by a cement truck years ago.

“He’s like, ‘This is from your accident when you were a child,’” Devine added. “‘The spasms are a little unexplainable, but it could just be [that] you got so tight that your body doesn’t know what to do with it so you’re misfiring a little bit.’”

Devine was hit by a 42-ton cement truck when he was 11 years old while crossing the street.

He confessed that at the time that he and his friend were on their way to the store to get candy and rip out pages from Playboy magazines.

When they reached a busy street, his pal crossed first, before Devine assumed the coast was clear for him to cross next.

“I walked out, and I got clobbered, and taken under the wheel, and spit out, and I flew like 500 feet, they said, and [I] was helicoptered away,” Devine said.

The People’s Choice Awards nominee showed Bensinger his long-term leg injury, joking that his leg “looks like uncooked chicken.”

The accident also impacted his groin, hip ligament and back. 

Devine couldn’t walk from 6th grade to 7th grade and had 26 surgeries weeks apart and “maybe a dozen” since then. He had to relearn how to sit and stand, but decades later, his legs are “still messed up.”

The star suspects cycling and going to CrossFit gyms may have triggered the pain as an adult.

But while being wheelchair-bound as a child, the “Righteous Gemstones” actor was able to discover his unique voice for comedy by calling a local radio station to perform impressions in exchange for concert tickets and CDs.

Devine was eventually able to walk again and his long recovery journey gave him the “confidence” to move out to Los Angeles and pursue acting.