Charlize Theron

And I think it was a big mistake because I suffered for eight years and had chronic pain, chronic pain.

And my neck was, that disc sat so close to all of my nerves.

that if I did anything wrong with it, anything it didn't like, it would just sit on nerves and I would just be locked, locked for weeks.

And I lived my life like that for eight years.

And so the Borat thing is funny because I laughed so hard that I locked that disc into the nerves.

And it was actually really bad.

Yeah, I was about to say, it's not a funny story.

That's a horrible story.

It's a funny story now.

I mean, we still laugh about it, but...

I had to like get flown like on a private plane that night and came back to L.A.

And when I had my first baby, I just said to the doctor, I want to have the surgery because I just don't want to live in this place where I have a child and I can't pick her up because my neck is out.

And so I kind of like it was the best thing I ever did.

I know a lot of people who've lived with chronic pain and it's really debilitating and really hard to think about anything else.

What was it like for you?

It was horrible.

It's horrible.

It's constant fear of like, I don't know if I should do that.

And I'm like in the prime of my life.

And then it became so...