'Luckily, I got it late in life, and they say you progress very slowly if at all, and I'm on the right meds,' he says in a video offering a health update and announcing his retirement from stand-up comedy.
Richard Lewis is opening up about the health issues he’s been privately dealing with over the last three-and-a-half years.star shared in a video posted to Twitter that amid four “back-to-back-to-back-to-back” surgeries for his back, shoulder and hip in recent years, he was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease two years ago.
“For the last three-and-a-half years, I’ve had sort of a rocky time,” he shares, noting that he recently wrapped the 12th season of Larry David’s HBO comedy series, on which Lewis is an original series regular, and wanted to address questions about if he will perform stand-up again. In the health update, he announces his retirement from stand-up, but says he plans to continue acting and writing, expressing his optimism over the late-in-life diagnosis.
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