Debby Ryan reveals lingering effects of ‘life-altering’ brain injury

Debby Ryan revealed she suffered a "life-altering" brain injury several years ago, and she still copes with the effects today.

The former Disney Channel star, best known for playing an aspiring actress turned nanny on "Jessie," opened up in a Sept. 15 appearance on the food-centric interview YouTube show "Mythical Kitchen." She talked about the "hellish" migraines she experiences.

"I'm a migraine warrior, and quite often the world is really loud. It's really too bright. It's too, there's a lot going on," Ryan said. "Specifically, I would say after the fifth concussion, the brain injuries make things significantly worse."

She continued: "I had a pretty crazy, life-altering brain injury a few years ago, and I was out of commission for six months. And I went to this neurological rehab for six months, went and did this fringe science treatment that was really sci-fi and crazy, and I've done it a couple times and it kind of got me back online."

Ryan admitted that despite all the treatments, "there are some things that just did not come back."

She shared that she's suffered from a total of five concussions, four of which she described as "incident" based while the other was…

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