When strolled onstage at the 2025 Oscars to present Best Picture, fans noticed she was walking with a slight limp. In Touch looks at the legendary actress’ health issues and why she’s not hiding her condition.

The You’ve Got Mail star has an arthritis-induced hip problem that causes her to walk with a limp.

While she hasn’t spoken in-depth about her health issues, Meg chose to write her limp into her character in the 2023 film What Happens Later, which she cowrote, starred in and directed. Her character, Willa, has ‘s Bill carry her luggage due to her hip issue, which she noted in a 2023 interview with the New York Times.

The Sleepless in Seattle star looked radiant in a strapless red velvet gown with slits on each side while attending the 2025 Oscars. In addition to presenting the biggest award of the evening alongside her When Harry Met Sally costar, Meg attended the high-profile Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty, changing into a flesh-colored gown with intricate beading.

The last time Meg attended the Oscars was in 1998 alongside then-husband .

“We get stuck in these conversations about looks and hair color and our roots. It’s interesting and funny for five minutes, but it’s not that interesting,” the My Mom’s New Boyfriend star told Porter magazine in 2015.

“I love my age. I love my life right now. I love what I know about. I love the person I’ve become, the one I’ve evolved into,” she continued. “In my life I’ve been scrappy as hell, but I feel easy with things now. I think that comes with age.”

Meg made her directorial debut in 2015 with the film Ithaca before following it up with What Happens Later.

“I understand acting I think more now because of that,” Meg told an audience at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2024 about directing. “I think, as an actor, you’re a soloist in an orchestra. You don’t see the big picture. Your one small job is to play your emotional instrument and know yourself well and be available to your feelings, you know, and to get out of your way and try not to be too intellectual about expressing them.”

Meg said she was still grateful to be working in movies after four decades in show business. “I don’t look at the downside very often. I am the luckiest person you’re ever going to meet,” she told the crowd. “I don’t have feelings like I’m being denied anything. I have a charmed existence and I work with incredible people.”

“We’re so lucky to do it,” she revealed about making movies. “When you think about all of the time you spend trying to set up a project, and all of the people who are trying to do the same, and how rare it is that you actually get a green light to go and play, it’s hard to think that it’s a drag.”