Tiffany Haddish is opening up about a difficult experience she’s going through. She said she has had eight miscarriages due to endometriosis.
Speaking with People, she opened up about the immense toil it has had on both her body and mental health. She said that it’s been a very difficult experience. Haddish has endometriosis, which is where the endometrium is also on the outside of the uterus. It also causes pain.
“My body be playing tricks on me,” the actor said. “I’m pretty sure the devil is real, because the first day of my period, no matter what, the devil goes into overdrive. I feel like my life gets turned upside down.”
She thought to herself, “I’m be like, ‘Am I dying?'” Haddish said she ended up going to the hospital because she kept fainting.
Haddish explained, “She gave me something because I kept passing out. I don’t talk about it, but people just think I’m sleep everywhere, but I’m passing out because I’ll be in so much pain.”
Doctors initially diagnosed Haddish with a dent in her uterus. However, she revealed that doctors misdiagnosed her.
Tiffany Haddish Opens Up About ‘Devastating’ Miscarriages
“The pain is crazy. It feels like somebody is kicking me in my back,” she said. “It turns out it’s not a dent they saw on the ultrasound. It was endo that was hanging down. It looked like a dent but it was just extra layers.”
Unfortunately for the actor, she said miscarriages have been a result of the disorder. She said she had eight miscarriages. Doctors had performed procedures to attempt to fix her condition.
“It’s so f—ing devastating,” she said. “Every time I find out I’m pregnant, I’m like, ‘Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t do nothin’. Even if I don’t really want [the baby], I still try to give it a chance.”
Haddish last had a miscarriage last year. She said, “It’s like, I won’t know why there’s so much blood. And then I go to the doctor and they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re miscarrying right now. And I just D&C (dilation and curettage, a procedure to remove pregnancy tissue).”
Haddish said that she’s been on medication to try treat it.
“The last two months have not been as bad,” she said. “I just feel drowsy. But I’ve been working out even more. And I’ve gone from 11 days [on my period] to four or five, which is kind of normal, so that’s nice.”