Amy Schumer said in a candid health update that she was “bedridden” after Ozempic. The 43-year-old comedian recently disclosed a number of very intimate health details.
In a series of open interviews and social media postings, including a fight with Cushing syndrome, a rare condition brought on by extended exposure to high cortisol levels.
In an interview with Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast, Schumer said, “If the internet hadn’t come for me so hard, I wouldn’t have known [about Cushing’s Syndrome].”
About “a year ago, the Internet really came for [her]” with derogatory remarks about her looks, she said. At first, she dismissed it.
“I said, ‘All right, everyone, just relax,'” she said to Cooper. However, when physicians joined in, the conversation became serious.