Cory Cotton Developed Bell's Palsy from Sleep Deprivation Building Dude Perfect
Cory Cotton · Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney · Sep 20, 2021 · at 1:05:34
Dude Perfect co-founder Cory Cotton recounts the severe physical toll and medical consequences of balancing full-time employment with filming.
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“They tell me, you know, after doing some tests on me that I had what's called Bell's palsy, and it's basically kind of a paralysis of the face that they still don't know exactly what causes it, but what they usually see is stress and lack of sleep, and so they call it temporary. It took six full months for me to get a single twitch in my face back”
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