Anne Hathaway Opens Up About 10-Year Health Battle

 has revealed she quietly lived with a scary health condition for ten years.

The actress, , claimed she was legally blind for a decade due to an early-onset cataract. 

A cataract is described as 'a clouding of the lens of the eye' by MayoClinic, and can be corrected with surgery. It can cause slightly blurry vision, faded colors and sensitivity to glare.

'It impacted my vision so much that I was basically legally blind out of my left eye and I wound up getting surgery,' the 43-year-old divulged on the New York Times show Popcast in April.

'I didn't realize how bad it had gotten until I could finally see the full spectrum,' she recalled to hosts Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli.

Fans who got wind of the story took to X last week to express their shock, with one person writing, 'Anne Hathaway just casually revealing she was legally blind out of her left eye for ten years on a random podcast with 87,000 subscribers. Girl, hello??' 

Someone else pointed out, 'The fact that she powered through ten years of major movies with that and never once complained or used it for press...actual legend behavior.'

And another echoed, 'Oh my god?? The amount of movies she did during those ten years and she never mentioned it.'