‘Adassa di Encanto’ was ‘paralyzed’ and ‘could not speak’ due to a mysterious illness when she got a role

Adassa was bedridden and could barely speak, let alone sing, when she learned that Dolores had landed her role in “Encanto.”

Just one day after auditioning for the role of Dolores in Disney encanto† Adassa He found himself fighting for his life when his body was devastated by a mysterious illness, possibly due to post-COVID complications. “I thought I was pregnant, I took a blood test and it came back negative. They started watching what was going on, and while I was standing there in the hospital, I was gradually unable to speak, silencing my words, and then my legs fell asleep, I couldn’t move my arms. They couldn’t understand what was going on, ”the singer recalled… HollywoodLife podcast† “The night before I sing and rap Hamilton at the audition and now I can’t move my mouth.

Doctors thought Adassa might have had a stroke, but after doing multiple tests, MRIs and CT scans, they were still unsure of what was going on. Her husband was not allowed to be with her due to COVID protocols, so the mother of seven children decided to leave the hospital and be with her family. “I just said I have to go home. I don’t want to die here if that’s what’s going on,” he recalls. A friend from the medical field suggested that the singer go to Vanderbilt Hospital for further observation, but after poking, poking, and saying she didn’t know what was going on, Adassa went home again, “she couldn’t even get out. . hospital. alone”.

“I wrote my will. I kissed the children. I couldn’t hold them back, which was the worst,” she tells HL emotionally. “I’ve been married to the same man for nearly 25 years, but sometimes it’s just when I’m completely paralyzed in the shower and I can’t even move my feet, it makes me feel so intensely and indifferently. And he took me in his bare arms and laid me on the bed … “

Adassa recalled feeling that she could “die happily” because she could “say”. [her] grandma’s story ”and“ tell [her] mother’s story ”during her encanto Choose. “It lives in people’s minds. I did my job. I made my family proud,” he said. After trying to regain her mobility for a few weeks and switching to a completely vegan diet to rehabilitate her body, Adassa got a call from the famous casting director. Jamie Spare Robertsto tell her that she got the part of Dolores encanto† “My husband hung up and said, ‘I think we should tell him he can’t stand it.’ said. So I said to him: ‘You will only call him when I am dead.’ “

The urban Reggaeton singer admitted to spending the next three weeks “training like Rocky” to prepare to shoot the movie. “Incredibly, I felt like I had conquered the world in three weeks,” says Adassa. One thing that worked in her favor was the director’s idea that Dolores would have a “soft voice”; that was at least as much as Adassa could gather at the time. “I had to speak very softly and very softly, so when he said, ‘I was already there!’ I thought. she she laughed.

Now, Adassa’s song encanto“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” topped the charts for the seventh week in a row, and his iconic silence from the song continues to go viral on TikTok. “It’s such a fun song. It’s the story of so many characters told. They tell their vision of Bruno,” he explained. “We still couldn’t believe it. [the success]† We pinch ourselves. We are so grateful to everyone who brought the characters to life, danced to the beat of the music, or re-enacted parts of the movie, because they did what it became: on this super-major hit that was broken so many times. “

Listen and definitely stream the entire HollywoodLife podcast interview with Adassa encanto On Disney+!