‘Gray’s Anatomy’ Steven W. Bailey
Uncommon Dysfunction Makes Him Use A Wheelchair
… However I Can Nonetheless Work!!!
Revealed
January 4, 2026
11:59 AM PST
“Gray’s Anatomy” star Steven W. Bailey is finished hiding his uncommon genetic dysfunction, which typically requires him to make use of a wheelchair … and he hopes his bravery would not price him his profession.
The actor opened up in a prolonged X thread over the weekend, revealing he is been battling Congenital Myasthenia Syndrome for over 5 years.
He wrote, “CMS is a genetic illness that disrupts the communication between the mind and the muscle on the ‘nerve/muscle junction.’ … My muscular tissues aren’t clearly receiving all my mind’s orders to do all of the swell issues muscular tissues are supposed to do. It is a drag.”
Bailey defined he stored the prognosis a secret “out of profession warning” however assured Hollywood he can nonetheless do many of the issues he used to, as his wheelchair use is ambulatory.
He mentioned, “Very like strolling my canine across the block, or serving to on the retailer, I can nonetheless carry out on my toes, limitedly. I can ambulate my method by means of easy ‘walks and talks’ with no downside. I can nonetheless rise to my toes to object to the choose, derail a city assembly, or yell at a cop for being a unfastened cannon. However, virtually talking, shifting ahead, it is time for my work, like in my life, to start out skewing extra wheelchair, if you’ll.”
Bailey reassured he was the identical man … simply “now with wheels.”
Along with enjoying Joe the bartender on ‘Gray’s,’ Bailey has additionally appeared on “Chicago Fireplace,” “You,” “Fashionable Household,” “Shameless,” “Scandal,” “All That,” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” amongst different hit TV exhibits.
