Mark Ruffalo dreamed of brain tumour, then doctors found ‘golf ball’-sized mass
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"It wasn’t even a voice, it was just pure knowledge: ‘You have a brain tumour, and you have to deal with it immediately,'" Mark Ruffalo recalled of his dream.
They say the human body knows when something is amiss, but Mark Ruffalo might have a special sixth sense.
In an interview this week on the SmartLess podcast, Ruffalo, 56, revealed that his doctors discovered a benign brain tumour behind his left ear in 2001. At the time, the actor, who was then working on The Last Castle, said he had a premonition of sorts that pushed him to contact his doctor.
“I just had this crazy dream. It wasn’t like any other dream I had had,” Ruffalo said. “It was just like ‘You have a brain tumour.’ It wasn’t even a voice, it was just pure knowledge: ‘You have a brain tumour, and you have to deal with it immediately.’”
Ruffalo said he felt “a sense of doom” despite not having any prior symptoms, except an ear infection.
He told an on-set doctor about his dream, who the same day ordered a CAT scan and assured the actor he shouldn’t worry.
When the results came, Ruffalo was told he had a “golf ball”-sized mass behind his left ear. His doctors couldn’t preemptively say what the mass was until it was biopsied.
But then Ruffalo faced a second dilemma. His wife, Sunrise Coigney, was days away from giving birth to their first child. Ruffalo said he didn’t want to worry his wife during the pregnancy.
“I was just like, I can’t. She’s already like, ‘Oh god, him again? Does everything gotta be about him?’” Ruffalo joked.
