--- title: Frankie Muniz Doesn’t Remember Much of Malcolm in the Middle description: "Malcolm in the Middle" star Frankie Muniz said he doesn’t remember most of his childhood, following a series of head injuries. canonical: https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-10T13:28:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:53.153Z og:title: Frankie Muniz Doesn’t Remember Much of Malcolm in the Middle og:description: After suffering at least nine concussions and a “fair amount of mini strokes" og:url: https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Frankie Muniz Doesn’t Remember Much of Malcolm in the Middle twitter:description: After suffering at least nine concussions and a “fair amount of mini strokes" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Frankie Muniz Says He Doesn’t Remember Much of _Malcolm in the Middle_ > Sponsored content. 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Muniz, who is now competing on ABC’s _Dancing With the Stars_, said he has suffered at least nine concussions and a “fair amount of mini strokes,” which he said might have resulted in his severe memory loss. “I’ve gotten to really do anything I’ve wanted to do,” Muniz said in a [pre-recorded interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vd10gwNJRs) that aired on the dancing competition Monday night. “But the truth is, I don’t really remember much of that.” “It makes me a little sad,” he added. > [](https://twitter.com/DancingABC/status/917541607913721856) It’s unclear how the child television star — who later became a race car driver and a musician — sustained the head injuries or why he had the mini strokes, which is also known as a transient ischemic attack. Muniz said he never went to the doctor for his memory problems. The theme of Monday night’s _Dancing With the Stars_ episode was “The Most Memorable Year.” “Most people would think that my most memorable year would be the year _Malcolm in the Middle_ started because it allowed me to live all these dreams of mine,” Muniz said. But because he remembers very little of the six years the show aired, between 2000 and 2006, Muniz said his most memorable year was 2017, the present. Actor [Bryan Cranston](http://time.com/4784303/breaking-bad-bryan-cranston-on-kimmel/), who portrayed Muniz’s father on the comedy sitcom, said he takes it upon himself to remind Muniz of the experiences they had together on the show. “My job is to tell him to remember what happened on _Malcolm in the Middle_,” said Cranston, who went on to star in the hit series _Breaking Bad_. “What a life.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/"},"headline":"Frankie Muniz Says He Doesn’t Remember Much of Malcolm in the Middle","datePublished":"2017-10-10T13:28:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:53.153Z","description":"After suffering at least nine concussions and a “fair amount of mini strokes\"","url":"https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4975749/malcolm-in-middle-frankie-muniz/","name":"Frankie Muniz Says He Doesn’t Remember Much of Malcolm in the Middle"}}]}] ```