“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Richard Lewis is opening up about his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. The actor, 75, shared a video on Twitter to tell fans what had been going on for the last few and a half years.
He told the camera, “Hey listen, I just wrapped a couple of weeks ago season 12 of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and it was just an amazing season and I’m so grateful to be a part of that show. “But you know the last three and a half years, I’ve had sort of a rocky time and people said, ‘I haven’t heard from you, are you still touring?'” READ MORE: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season 12 Likely To Be The Show’s Last “Here’s really what happened,” Lewis went on. “Three and half years ago I was in the middle of a tour and I finally ended it with a show.
I said, ‘You know I’m at the top of my game, after 15 years almost I’m going to call it quits,’ and I felt great about that and then out of the blue the s**t hit the fan.
I had four surgeries back to back to back to back, it was incredible, I couldn’t believe it, it was bad luck, but it’s life.” He explained how he’d had back surgery, shoulder and shoulder replacement surgery and hip replacement surgery.
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