Ray Romano must be struggling with fried eggs in bacon fat these days.
The Everyone loves Raymond star told Marc Maron on this WTF podcast that he had a stent placed after doctors found a 90 percent blockage in his main artery.
“I was lucky we found it,” said Romano, who admitted his doctor told him years ago to take a statin for his cholesterol. But Romano ignored him.
“I had high cholesterol 20 years ago and my husband would always say to me, ‘Why don’t we start the statin,’ and every time I would say let me do it myself,” Romano said. “I would go home and eat a little healthier, cut off some ticks. It was 280 and now it’s 220. He said, ‘You’ve got to get it down a bit.’ I would have gone home thinking I was hot shit.
Afterwards, Romano told Maron he wished he had taken medicine.
“I’m having trouble sticking to this diet,” recalls Romano, who added that although his cholesterol levels are low these days, he’s now considered prediabetic because his blood sugar is high.
The comedian who directed and co-wrote Somewhere in Queensalso complained about how it feels to be 65. His twins are now 30 and one of them is getting married.
“Time feels so fast, unlike when we were young,” Romano said. “But man saying 50 was strange, but say [he’s] 60 it sounds strange, it sounds wrong in my head.
Source: Deadline
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