The saying goes that you can’t be a little bit pregnant. You are or you aren’t. And while that may be true, according to a recent interview Patrick Stewart gave to the New York Times, you can certainly be less circumcised than you thought you were.

“All my life I believed that I was circumcised,” said the 75-year-old Shakespearian actor. Stewart’s wife thought he was mistaken, and after asking his doctor, Stewart learned that she was correct.

This all came out during discussions Stewart was having with Jonathan Ames, creator of Stewart’s new Starz sitcom Blunt Talk. On the show, Stewart plays a British newscaster who moves to Los Angeles and finds his hopes of cable news success to be frequently thwarted. (Hmm, sound familiar?) Stewart told the Times of meeting with Ames in their shared Brooklyn neighborhood and telling him about this new personal discovery.

“How could I not have known,” Stewart muses now. “Jonathan loved this, and so he wrote a little story about that.” Ripped-from-the-headlines, indeed!