Some Actors Developed A Debilitating Condition On Set
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Shatner and Nimoy both developed tinnitus after an explosion on set. Tinnitus is a ringing or buzzing in your ears that can get so intense, it will drive people mad.
Shatner told The Aquarian that he’s even talked someone out of suicide: “A famous musician got a hold of me cold. I didn’t know him. He knew I got it because I was the official spokesman for tinnitus at one period, and I talked him down and encouraged him to do a habituation, you know, the white should, because when I was asked when I first got it how it affected my life from 1 to 10, it was 9 1/2.”
