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Dodgers Player Mookie Betts Shares His Body is “Eating Itself” Amid Mystery Illness
Mookie Betts is dealing with a abrupt curveball.
After missing respective opening games successful the 2025 MLB season, the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder revealed he’s been suffering from a enigma illness.
“I’m not precisely definite what it is,” Betts told reporters after his team’s game against the Los Angeles Angels on March 23. “I don’t deliberation anybody truly knows. You spell measurement yourself and you measurement 150 lbs. And earlier I near outpouring [training], I was 175.”
The 32-year-old—who shares daughter Kynlee, 6, with wife Brianna Hammonds—explained his symptoms began earlier this month, erstwhile helium started throwing up coagulated food. While he’s shared that he’s “scared to eat,” helium knows that gathering an unhealthy narration with nutrient could origin much harm since he’s inactive practicing with his teammates.
“My tummy is, I guess, truly aggravated,” Betts continued. “I’m practicing each time and my body’s conscionable benignant of eating itself. Literally each clip I substance my body, I propulsion it up. I don’t cognize what to bash astir it.”
The shot star, who joined the Dodgers successful July 2020, isn’t the lone idiosyncratic uncertain astir his illness. His doctors haven’t been capable to diagnose him owed to his humor tests coming backmost “really clean,” but for now, they’ve enactment him connected medication. As for Betts attack to his tummy issues, he’s continuing to dilatory down his eating.
“It looks similar I’m conscionable going to beryllium airy for a small bit,” the On The Base podcast big noted. “I’m bushed of sitting, bushed of throwing up, bushed of doing each this. I truly conscionable privation to play.”
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Betts isn’t the lone Dodgers prima that’s had a wellness scare successful the past year, arsenic the team’s pitcher Dustin May was hospitalized for an esophageal teardrop successful June 2024. According to May, helium suffered the “life-altering event” aft a portion of lettuce from his crockery got lodged successful his throat. But aft country and six months of rehab, he returned to the diamond field earlier this year.
Keep speechmaking to spot much celebrities who’ve opened up astir their health scares…
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Jason Tartick's Back Injury
The Bachelor Nation alum shared that helium went to the infirmary “crawling connected each fours” owed to overwhelming backmost symptom that was aggravated during an RV travel with a friend.
“Right now, knees to my toes, it’s, like, inactive tingly, which is crazy,” helium said connected a March 24 occurrence of his Trading Secrets podcast. “And to enactment successful perspective, I don’t know, man, similar not to dependable douchey, but similar two, 3 weeks ago, possibly a period ago, I was squatting astir apt similar 295 pounds. And close now, I can’t bash a squat connected my foot. I can’t bash a 1 legged squat, I fall. It’s similar I had a changeable oregon something.”
But with the assistance of a backmost specializer and immoderate steroids, helium added, “We’re connected the mend.”
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Casey Fitzgerald's Neck Injury From Hockey Skate Blade
The AHL subordinate was chopped by a chap player's skate during a crippled successful December 2024 and received 25 stitches. His father, New Jersey Devils wide manager Tom Fitzgerald aboriginal told ESPN aft his lad was afloat recovered, "We're precise lucky. I don't privation that connected immoderate parent."
Matt Kirschenheiter's Heart Attack
Real Housewives of Orange County’s Gina Kirschenheiter shared her ex-husband Matt Kirschenheiter suffered a bosom onslaught successful March 2025, but thankfully survived the ordeal.
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Tracy Morgan's Medical Emergency
The 30 Rock prima suffered a wellness scare astatine a New York Knicks hoops crippled successful March 2025, starring to him being wheeled retired of Madison Square Garden.
However, the comedian shared an update connected societal media the pursuing day, noting it was a lawsuit of nutrient poisoning and that helium was connected the mend.
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Christy Carlson Romano's Eye Injury
The Even Stevens alum shared successful February 2025 that she was changeable successful the look portion connected a travel to sprout clay pigeons to observe hubby Brendan Rooney's birthday.
"There was different enactment with america and they unsafely fired successful the incorrect absorption and changeable maine successful the face," she wrote connected Instagram. "@thebrendanrooney instantly sprung into action, assessed me, and rushed maine to the hospital. I was deed successful 5 places, 1 was little than an inch from hitting maine straight successful my close eye."
The Kim Possible alum continued, "Unfortunately a fragment got lodged down my oculus and it is excessively risky to region surgically astatine this time. Doctors volition proceed to show maine (I tin spot usually astatine the moment)."
The histrion said she was grateful to beryllium alive. "I emotion my daughters, husband, family, and friends truthful much," she said. "I saw my beingness flash earlier my eyes and I’m telling you, hug the radical astir you each accidental you can. Life tin alteration successful an instant."
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Amy Schumer’s Cushing Syndrome
While the net isn't ever a benignant place, Amy Schumer is blessed that, successful this case, it helped her get answers.
"The net truly came for maine aft doing a clump of press, and I was like, 'OK everybody, relax,'" Amy recalled of her "puffier" look connected a January 2025 occurrence of Call Her Daddy. "But past doctors were chiming successful in the comments and they were like, 'No no, we deliberation something’s truly up. Your look looks truthful brainsick that we deliberation something’s up. And I’m like, ‘Wait, I’m getting trolled by doctors?’"
After these doctors said they thought she had Cushing syndrome and that it whitethorn beryllium caused by spiking coritsol levels oregon steroid injections, the Life & Beth creator thought, "Wait, I person been getting steroid injections successful my scars."
"I had a bosom reduction, a C-section, whatever, and truthful I was getting these steroid injections," Amy said. "So it gave maine this happening called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t person known if the net hadn’t travel for maine truthful hard."
Toda, Amy is conscionable relieved she's OK. As she shared successful a February 2024 News Not Noise newsletter, "Finding retired I person the benignant of Cushing that volition conscionable enactment itself retired and I'm steadfast was the top quality imaginable."
Hailey Bieber's Blood Clot
Hailey Bieber had the "scariest moment" of her beingness erstwhile she was having meal with hubby Justin Bieber and started experiencing stroke-like symptoms successful March 2022.
"Justin was like, 'Are you OK?'" the Rhode skincare mogul shared a period aboriginal connected YouTube, "and I conscionable didn't respond due to the fact that I wasn't sure. And past helium asked maine again and erstwhile I went to respond, I couldn't speak. The close broadside of my look started drooping. I couldn't get a condemnation out."
While Hailey said the facial drooping stopped and her code came back, she went to the infirmary to marque definite she was OK.
"They did immoderate scans and they were capable to spot that I had suffered a tiny blood clot to my brain," the exemplary added, "which they labeled and categorized arsenic thing called a TIA [Transient Ischemic Attack]."
Later, Hailey went to the University of California, Los Angeles, wherever she recovered retired she had a spread successful her bosom called a patent foramen ovale (PFO).
She explained the humor clot had traveled into her heart, "escaped" done the spread and went to her brain, starring to the TIA.
Hailey said she had a successful PFO closure process and was present feeling great.
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Justin Bieber's Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
The aforesaid twelvemonth Hailey had her wellness scare, Justin experienced 1 of his own.
In June 2022, the "Baby" vocalist shared helium was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a information that caused impermanent paralysis to parts of his look and forced him to cancel the remainder of his Justice World Tour.
"It is from this microorganism that attacks the nervus successful my receptor and my facial nerves and has caused my look to person paralysis," Justin explained successful an Instagram video astatine the time. "As you tin see, this oculus is not blinking. I can't grin connected this broadside of my face. This nostril volition not move. So, there's afloat paralysis connected this broadside of my face."
In fact, helium told his followers it had gotten "progressively harder to eat." But aft a while, the paralysis went away.
"He's doing truly well," Hailey said connected a June 2022 occurrence of Good Morning America, aboriginal adding, "He's feeling a batch better. Obviously, it was conscionable a precise scary and random concern to happen, but he's going to beryllium wholly OK and I'm conscionable grateful that he's fine."
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Jamie Foxx's Brain Bleed & Stroke
While Jamie Foxx initially kept details of his April 2023 hospitalization private, helium aboriginal opened up astir what helium went through.
One time successful Atlanta, "I was having specified a atrocious headache, truthful I asked my boy, I said, ‘Listen, I request an aspirin,’” the Oscar victor said successful his 2024 Netflix peculiar What Had Happened Was... “Before I could get the Aspirin, I went out. I don’t retrieve 20 days.”
Jamie said helium was initially taken to a doc who gave him a cortisone changeable and past sent him home. However, his acrophobic sister Deidra Dixon past drove him to a hospital, wherever they got an answer: He had a encephalon bleed that led to a stroke.
Twenty days aft undergoing an operation, the Django Unchained woke up May 4 successful a wheelchair and couldn’t walk. He past went to Chicago for rehabilitation and therapy.
"All I tin archer you is that I admit each prayer,” helium said, “because I needed each prayer.”
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Emilia Clarke's Brain Aneurysm
Emilia Clarke filmed conflict scenes for Game of Thrones, but successful 2019, she published an effort successful The New Yorker titled "A Battle for My Life."
Having a atrocious headache astatine the gym, "I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to beryllium violently, voluminously ill," the histrion wrote. "Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At immoderate level, I knew what was happening: my encephalon was damaged."
She was taken to the infirmary for a encephalon scan.
"The diagnosis was speedy and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening benignant of stroke, caused by bleeding into the abstraction surrounding the brain," the Emmy nominee added. "I’d had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture."
Emilia had contiguous country to seal the aneurysm, calling the symptom "unbearable." While she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and was "muttering nonsense."
A week later, "the aphasia passed," Emilia added, and she near the infirmary a period aft being admitted.
At a 2013 encephalon scan, she learned a maturation "doubled successful size" and that she needed country again.
"When they woke me, I was screaming successful pain," she wrote. "The process had failed. I had a monolithic bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn’t run again. This clip they needed to access my brain successful the old-fashioned way—through my skull."
Thankfully, Emilia shared, she's present "at a 100 per cent."
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Cori Broadus's Stroke
Snoop Dogg's girl Cori Broadus is grateful for her family.
Because aft she suffered a "severe stroke" successful January 2024, her loved ones rushed to beryllium by her side.
"I texted them that I conscionable had a changeable and sent them a picture," she told E! News correspondent Will Marfuggi successful December 2024. "Everybody conscionable came to my rescue."
Because of different aesculapian concerns, Cori ended up staying successful the infirmary longer than she initially expected. Today, Cori is connected the mend. "I'm doing great," she added. "I conscionable had a small spot of centrifugal skills that I had to enactment backmost on. But different than that, I was fine."
"I could person went location aft my stroke, but my lupus wasn't doing truthful well," the Snoop's Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne's Story prima continued. "My kidneys were failing. It was a batch going on."
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Shailene Woodley's Health Battle
Shailene Woodley’s aboriginal 20s were not an casual clip health-wise.
“It got to the constituent wherever I was losing my hearing. I couldn’t locomotion for longer than 5 minutes astatine a clip without having to laic down for hours, and hours and sleep. Everything I ate wounded my stomach,” the histrion said connected a September 2024 occurrence of the SHE MD Podcast. “It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and antithetic doctors telling maine antithetic things.”
So Shailene—who chose to support the nonstop information private—set retired to find answers.
“I travel from a precise holistic inheritance and survey herbalism,” she added. “So I was precise keen on, ‘I’m going to enactment with existent MDs, [and] I’m besides going to enactment with autarkic benignant of healers.’ Just trying to hunt for immoderate consciousness of comfortableness successful my ain skin.”
It was a agelong journey—one that lasted for 10 years.
“Throughout that decade, a batch of different things came from feeling truthful overmuch discomfort physically,” the Big Little Lies star noted, “which was, ‘My gosh, if everything I devour hurts my stomach, I’m present abruptly acrophobic of food.’ And past going into the benignant of intelligence f--ckery that tin hap with that of assemblage dysmorphia and disorder astir individuality and feeling harmless successful my ain capsule, successful my ain skin, what that meant, and what that should be.”
After tending to some her carnal and intelligence health, Shailene is feeling overmuch better.
“It was a travel that yet physically resolved itself, and I americium precise healthy,” she shared. “I’m truthful blessed to beryllium capable to accidental that."
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