“I was living the good life. I had side businesses and one of them was a catering business. And I was doing a lot of motion picture and television catering for crews, which is for about 100 to 200 people. It’s like setting up a whole restaurant. I was around food all the time and I was a very good cook. Of course, that entailed sitting down with people so I was sometimes eating five to six full meals a day … I was making a lot of money, everything was going great, and everyone around me was at least as fat as I was.”
On being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and bad cholesterol:
“I sold the catering company and went on a very strict diet. I’ve been controlling my weight with diet and exercise ever since. I walk everyday about six to eight miles. And I am now pre-diabetic because of that … dying from diabetes is a terrible way to go. It’s really a horrible death. It basically burns different parts of your body.
It’s really tough, especially when I go out to eat. But I think, ‘I can have this, but do I want to run further to get the weight off? Could I even get it off?’ It’s a daily struggle. I’m not cured. This is something I have to deal with all the time. And I’m hoping that by going out to educate people on diabetes, I can save my fans.”
And on today's sitcoms:
“I have a lot of problems with today’s TV shows. I honestly don’t watch a lot of them because to me, they seem very fake. It’s writers being put in a room to just make jokes … and I don’t find many of them funny. There’s also a very thin plot line. And to me, they’re just not very interesting. I do watch a lot of news. I try to stay informed on all the current events. But I don’t really have a big destination TV show.”
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