'I was perfectly fine the night before!' Ten celebrities who have suffered from facial paralysis

Pop star Justin Bieber recently shocked his millions of Instagram followers when he took to his social media to reveal that he has been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome which is caused when a varicella-zoster virus infects a nerve in the head and has left him unable to move one side of his face. The 'Stay' hitmaker has been forced to postpone his world tour as he recovers, but many other stars have battled through their own version of a face paralysis disease and lived to tell the tale.

The 'Mr and Mrs Smith' actress - who has six children with ex-husband Brad Pitt - was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy in 2016 and put it down to the stress of putting her family first. She said: "Sometimes women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health." Angelina later made a full recovery after reprotedy undergoing acupuncture.

The 'Rocky' star born with facial paralysis resulting from birth complications. Some symptoms of the disease are still present today but he later joked that as a child he "Mr. Potato Head with all the parts in the wrong place." The Hollywood star later claimed that as a child he was told his bran was "dormant" and was therefore inspired to take up bodybuidling as a way of fighting back.

Hollywood veteran George temporary form of facial paralysis caused by damage to the cranial nerve when he was just 13 years old. He later admitted that although it went away eventually, he navigated through the bullying at school by making jokes about his condition. He said: "It was very awkward being watched like that, everybody looking, and then all of a sudden your face goes flat? My dad would always say, 'It's going to go away, you'll be fine, you can handle it.' But it was a tricky thing. So, you develop a better personality and learn how to make jokes about it".

The former 'Dawson's Creek' actress has also suffered from facial paralysis and it is thought that the after effects are the reason behind her signature facial smirk.

The former 'One Mississipi' star was suffered from facial paralysis and needed $5,000 to pay for treatment, but his frozen face left him unable to work on screen. So he reached out to fans via a fundrasing page and eventually secured more than $8,000 for treatment. At the time, he said: "This is a short film about an actor named Noah (me) who is $5k short of qualifying for health insurance for his family (true) when he gets Bell's Palsy (also true)...SO, he decides to make a short film about an actor named Noah who gets Bell's Palsy then makes a movie in order to pay himself the $5k so he can keep his insurance for his famly."

Roseanne was starring in a revival of her self-titled 1990s sitcom in 2018 but the show was hastily cancelled when she sent a controversial tweet deemed to be racist. As a result of her swift cancellation, Roseanne claimed that she had developed a bit of palsy as she dealt with the stress. She said: "I have developed a bit of palsy in my head and hands due to the stress I have lived thru."(sic)

The musical impresario behind hit musicals such as 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' previosuly spoke of his shock that he just woke up one morning to find that half of his face hadstopped moving. He said: "What's incredible is that the night before I'd been perfectly fine. Luckily, I acted swiftly, called a doctor and was quickly diagnosed. It was a condition that leaves your face frozen. I have no idea how I contracted it but much later discovered that someone I'd been working with had shingles and it comes from the same virus."

The former 'James Bond' star suffered from facial paralysis in the which affected the right side of his face. He later claimed to have shooting a shirtless scene in a river and had could only be filmed from the left side of his face while he was treated for sterroids for a few weeks until he recovered.

The former ctor - who quit the business in 2019 - is best known for his roles in movies such as 'Dead Presidents ' and 'Hustle and Flow' but developed Bells Palsy in high school. He would later learn that he had a 95 percent chance of his face staying frozen, so he issued a series of electrical shocks to his face by cutting wires off his father’s electric razor attaching one end to his face and the other to a fuse box. He later said: "I did that every day for five months and then I felt the slightest little twitch inside!"

The 'Peaches' hitmaker took to Instagram tor reveal that he was suffering from Ramsay Hunt Sydrome - a rare condition that is thought to stem from shingles. He said: "Obviously as you can probably see with my face. I have this syndrome called Ramsay Hunt syndrome and it is from this virus that attacks the nerves in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis." As you can see, this eye is not blinking. I can’t smile on this side of my face. This nostril will not move." Justin put the ordeal down to his body telling him to "slow down" but assured his fans that after resting, he would be back to doing "what [he] was born to do."