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Toolbag extraordinaire Jeremy Piven went on Good Morning America today to clear some things up:
Piven said he was “brought to [his] knees” by his condition and said that on doctor’s orders he “couldn’t do it.”
“The last thing I ever thought about doing was not completing this run. I’ve never not completed anything in my life,” the Emmy-winning actor said. “They pulled me out of this thing, and that’s the truth.”
“You talk about ‘the show must go on,’ this is in my DNA. To have the rap be on me that I walked out on this thing. This was the greatest moment of my life,” he said.
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But Piven said the effects of the poisoning were nothing to joke about.“It progressed to the point where that final Sunday I was having problems spatially,” he said. The actor said that he had trouble remembering his lines and maintaining his balance and that he was suffering from extreme fatigue.
“You have to understand, I’m not a doctor and I don’t even play one on TV,” Piven said. “I can only speak of how this was playing on me.”
After three days in the hospital, Piven said a cardiologist ordered him to leave the show for “forced rest.”
“He said, ‘You have a resting heart rate of 47. Your body is trying to keep up,’” Piven said.
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Piven told “GMA” today that fish was his only source of protein for the last 20 years. Piven said he hasn’t had a morsel of fish in five months.
What a drama queen.
ABC also sites the University of Maryland Medical Center, saying that typical treatment for actual cases of mercury poisoning last several months. So it’s surprising that he’s out and about after just a few weeks. Also, he doesn’t explain why he hasn’t had any fish in five months (and anyway, that was well before he started work on Speed-the-Plow, which debuted in November).
So to sum up, he seems to have recovered from his mercury poisoning well enough to make the rounds on morning news programs and attend Golden Globes parties to defend his mercury poisoning excuse, but not enough to return to Broadway. I’m sure the producers of Speed-the-Plow are thrilled to hear that he’s fully recuperated after his relaxing Thai vacation. So that now they can drag his smug butt to court.
Everybody knows that the only reason we haven’t wiped out Osama Bin Laden is because George W. Bush is too busy lighting big fat cigars with $100 bills his oil company buddies gave him for invading Iraq. Also because Dubya’s too scared to go to Pakistan and look for the guy himself. What are ya, George, chicken? Bawk-bawk-bawk-bawwwwwk!!
