‘Sex & the City’ Star Reveals ‘Dramatic’ Health Diagnosis at 59

STR New / Reuters Sex & the City star Kristin Davis is speaking out about the diagnosis she received just before turning 60 that forced her to temporarily stop working.

The actress, now 61, discussed her “dramatic” health ordeal in an interview with NewBeauty published on Oct.

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“I was flying back from L.A. after seeing my kids for the weekend.

We were still filming the final season [of And Just Like That… ], about a week from wrapping, so I was tired, but I’m used to that,” she said.

Adding, “When I got in the car after landing, I told my driver my forehead really hurt.

He asked if I needed aspirin, and I said no, it’s my skin.

It felt like fiberglass in my skin.

I could barely touch it.” When Davis arrived on set the following day, she told her makeup artist about the pain.

“There was nothing visible yet, and because it was only one half of my forehead, it didn’t seem like a reaction to a product,” she said.

“Then I got shooting pain from the top of my head down, which I’d never had.

I worried it was a stroke or a migraine, so I started Googling.” Then Davis noticed a pink spot on her forehead that looked familiar to her makeup artist: “My makeup artist, Matin, said, ‘Oh no, I hope that’s not shingles.’ I thought, shingles? That’s crazy.

It had never crossed my mind that I was at risk.” Shingles is an often painful, blistering rash caused by the same virus as chickenpox and is most common in people over 50.

It can affect anyone who has had chickenpox and, in rare cases, those who have had the chickenpox vaccine.