Once, Zee fell asleep while teaching an exercise class, and thought she'd had a heart attack. "I still didn't know that [I was falling asleep] until I got into three different car accidents," she said during the revealing podcast (via Hello!).

Once the meteorologist was officially diagnosed, her odyssey was far from over, with her medication exacerbating her depression. As Zee told People in 2017, "It amplified everything. Ups were amplified and downs were amplified. I've had to learn to live on that medication responsibly, because I can't not have it. You have to be really, really careful with it."

Since becoming a household name, Zee has continued to be open about her condition, and its scary impacts on her life, on social media, tweeting in 2019, "Taking a new narcolepsy medication this morning & for the first time in my life read the 'caution' part of the paperwork... getting older & paying attention to life is scary. #rash #stroke #death I know these are risks they have to list but goodness. Hope to see y'all on GMA."