Abbott Elementary’s Tyler James Williams Recalls How He Nearly Died From Untreated Crohn’s Disease: ‘I Was Really Pushing My Body to the Limit’

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Tyler James Williams opened up about the health struggles he dealt with before being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in his early 20s.During an interview with Men’s Health, which was published earlier this month, the Abbott Elementary star, 30, recalled his attempts to build up muscle at the gym.

Williams noted that he overdid it by hiring trainers, doing weight-training and force-feeding himself.After ending up with horrible stomach pain, the actor wasn’t able to keep any food in his system. “I was really pushing my body to the limit,” he explained, adding that he weighed 130 pounds at the time. “By the time December hit, it just crashed.

Everything shut down.”Williams was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease after visiting a gastroenterologist in New York City. His X-rays alerted medical professionals that he had inflamed bowels which were clogged with scar tissue.According to Mayo Clinic, Crohn’s disease is “a type of inflammatory bowel disease” that causes swelling of the tissues in your digestive tract.

This can lead to “abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition.”The disease, which has no known cure, can be “both painful and debilitating” and sometimes may lead to “life-threatening” complications.