In a new docuseries, Schumer said she has used comedy to cope with decades of health struggles, which also included a difficult pregnancy and compulsive hair pulling.
"It was a full nine months of being violently ill," Schumer said."It was like I had food poisoning for nine months."
When Schumer was around 10 years old, around the time that her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her parents divorced, she began compulsively pulling out her hair and had to wear a wig to school, she told Agus.as a mental disorder with an unknown cause. Comedy, Schumer said in the docuseries, has offered her a way to help her family cope with the various health struggles they have faced:"Making everybody around me laugh made me feel better," she said.
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