Celebrities’ illnesses that are chronic and painful

This post shows you that even celebrities have problems in their life and chronic disease is one of the most frustrating problems to have. Here is the list of celebrities’ illnesses.

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is a celebrity with chronic pain. Morgan Freeman, the voice of God, is everyone’s favorite artist.  Morgan Freeman suffers from fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by chronic widespread pain and is often accompanied by fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety or depressive episodes.

Source: http://livingpositivelywithdisability.com/morgan-freeman-on-fibromyalgia/

Salman Khan

Salman Khan suffers from a very painful disease named Trigeminal neuralgia, where a part of his face has excruciating pain when the disease is triggered. He shares about his diseases in a press conference.

Peter Dinklage

The most liked character in the Game of Thrones and famous by the name of Tyrion Lannister has a hereditary disease called Achondroplasia which is the cause of his failure of growth.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5570388/game-of-thrones-peter-dinklage-limbs-pulled-child-dwarfism/

Irrfan Khan

Irrfan Khan recently announced that he has been diagnosed with specific cancer known as a neuroendocrine tumor. He shared a tweet which was emotional for his fans in so many ways.

Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan has had an episode of Myocardial Infarction. Best known for his fitness, his fans were surprised when he got a heart attack at a young age.
Source: https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-saif-ali-khan-suffers-a-heart-attack-1080733

Amitabh Bachchan

You would be surprised to know that only on 25 per cent of Amitabh Bachchan’s liver is functional today. He lost the rest 75 percent of his live due to hepatitis. He got infected with Hepatitis B virus when he was transfused blood.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/i-am-surviving-only-on-25-per-cent-of-my-liver-today-amitabh-bachchan/

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez suffers from a chronic autoimmune disease known as Lupus Erythematous which is fatal in so many ways. The actress and award-winning artist announced she had a kidney transplant over the summer due to complications from Lupus, an autoimmune disease that causes harm to organs and tissues.
Source: https://www.kidney.org/newsletter/selena-gomez-announced-she-had-kidney-transplant

Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel, the funny man, too has a disease which is interesting in itself. He has narcolepsy where he can pathologically fall asleep anywhere. It is fatal in many ways. He can literally fall asleep while crossing a road.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_narcolepsy

Sia

Sia, the award-winning and famous singer, suffers from a Graves Disease. Graves disease is an autoimmune disease with major complications such as graves ophthalmology and metabolic disorders.

Kim Kardashian

Well, Kim Kardashian is one of the most noted celebrities of this decade. But few people know she suffers from a chronic skin disorder known as Psoriasis.
Source: https://www.allure.com/story/kim-kardashian-psoriasis-flare-up-photo-instagram

Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne, a famous rapper, is suffering from epilepsy. Epilepsy is a central nervous system (neurological) disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41145110/lil-wayne-is-reportedly-in-hospital-after-multiple-seizures-in-a-chicago-hotel-room

George Clooney

Clooney says sometimes he can’t sleep at night due to serious chronic pain, caused by an accident he had in 2005 while filming Syriana. The accident caused breakage in his spine and persistent leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. Over the years Clooney says he’s taken a number of highly addictive prescription medications. He reports that while the pain is now bearable, it will never fully go away.
Source: https://geauxspine.com/spine-surgery-eased-george-clooneys-chronic-back-pain/

Michael J. Fox

The 37-year-old Canadian actor Michael J. Fox has Parkinson disease, a progressive degenerative disease of the part of the brain called the substantia nigra that controls movement. … After the diagnosis in 1991, Fox’s disease progressed over the next few years affecting his entire left side with tremors and stiffness.
He also runs a foundation which funds and accelerates the research for Parkinson’s disease.
Source: https://www.michaeljfox.org/

will.i.am

The Black Eyed Peas star suffers from ADHD. According to him, “I have ADHD; I admit it. I’ve got all these thoughts running around in my head at the same time as I’m doing other things. I can’t seem to stop or slow down. But the good news is, I know how to control it. For every obstacle, there’s some type of solution. So if you have ADHD, it becomes your passion point to find ways to deal with it.”.
Source: https://www.additudemag.com/will-i-am/

Nick Jonas

Jonas, now 24, was diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 at age of 13 and has emerged as a leading voice in raising awareness about the disease.
Source: https://medlineplus.gov/magazine/issues/spring17/articles/spring17pg12-13.html

David Beckham

Legendary ex-footballer David Beckham has suffered from a mild form of asthma since childhood.
Asthma can make breathing difficult and cause coughing and wheezing but still, he emerged out to be the greatest player of his time.
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/players/david-beckham/6641322/David-Beckham-has-suffered-from-asthma-since-childhood.html

Michael Phelps

When Michael was in the sixth grade, he was fidgety and had trouble paying attention in the classroom. His pediatrician diagnosed him with ADHD. With a total of 28 medals, Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events, and Olympic medals in individual events
Source: https://www.additudemag.com/michael-phelps-adhd-advice-from-the-olympians-mom/

Charlie Sheen

The Golden Globe-winning actor Charlie Sheen has been diagnosed with HIV.
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/charlie-sheen-opens-battle-hiv-feel-carrying-torch/story?id=44641951

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin has been diagnosed with Lyme disease. According to him, the Lyme disease got so bad that he thought he was going to die.
Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2017/lyme-disease-alec-baldwin.html

Tom Hanks

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has also been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/tom-hanks-diagnosed-with-diabetes-after-being-an-idiot-with-food-and-weight-when-he-was-younger-a7033681.html

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, who has a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancers, announced in 2013 that she carried the BRCA1 gene, which puts her at significant risk of also developing these cancers. At that time, Ms. Jolie undertook a preventative double mastectomy.
She wrote in the NYTimes explaining about it. Read here https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?hp&_r=0

Lena Dunham

Actress Lena Dunham says that in recent months she underwent a total hysterectomy in an attempt to finally end her years-long battle with chronic pain stemming from endometriosis. Endometriosis causes excruciating pain.

Source: https://www.endofound.org/breaking-lena-dunham-reveals-her-latest-endometriosis-battle-i-had-a-total-hysterectomy

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