Lisa Alamia underwent jaw surgery in December last year to correct a serious overbite and reportedly the operation was a complete success. That is until she opened her mouth to speak and sounded completely different. It turns out she is suffering from Foreign Accent Syndrome.
According to a report by The Star, Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare speech disorder, first described back in 1907 by French neurologist Pierre Marie. Reportedly since then, there have reportedly been only around 100 documented cases of the speech disorder.You can watch her here
Basically a person with Foreign Accent Syndrome speaks with an accent considered by the patients themselves, and by doctors and others, to sound “foreign” and completely unlike the patient’s previous dialect. The speech disorder does not, apparently, require previous exposure by the person to such an accent.
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