Kenan Thompson has been going by way of it for the previous few years, and none of us knew. Till now.
“I seen that I’d get hoarse so much simpler after I’m doing the present. Shedding my voice faster, but in addition uncomfortable sleepless nights as a result of I’m burping up acid, simply sort of hiccuping all night time,” Thompson informed PEOPLE. “And that may positively add extra stress to an already anxious sort of atmosphere doing a dwell present like that. So all of these elements, I used to be like no matter, I’ll recover from it. Nevertheless it simply began to pile up.”
Throughout a current interview with PEOPLE, the veteran “Saturday Night time Dwell” star opened up about his well being struggles, telling the outlet that he would take care of heartburn whereas consuming acidic meals.
Despite the fact that he was struggling to get by way of workdays, Thompson didn’t speak in confidence to anybody about what he was going by way of and simply tried to keep away from these acidic meals that might carry him ache. He would take different medicines, however nothing was working.
This resulted within the “Good Burger” comic lastly taking a visit to the physician in 2024, the place he was virtually instantly recognized with gastroesophageal reflux illness, higher often known as GERD, a situation the place the contents of your abdomen transfer into your esophagus and may trigger irritation, in keeping with Johns Hopkins Drugs.
Now as an alternative of “struggling in silence,” Thompson is talking up for anybody else who’s coping with the identical situation, beginning the GERD IS NO JOKE marketing campaign.
“I’ve had good coaching with SNL, simply making an attempt to take the comedic strategy to more durable matters and make it extra palatable to debate,” Thompson informed PEOPLE.
Thompson, whose been a comic for greater than 20 years, has by no means shied away from exhausting discussions.
In Might 2024, he shared his ideas on the “Quiet on Set” documentary, overtly sharing that despite the fact that he by no means skilled the abuse and inappropriate habits that passed off at Nickelodeon within the late ‘90s and early 2000s, his coronary heart went out to these which have been victimized.