Ashton Kutcher Didn’t Intend to Publicly Reveal Vasculitis Diagnosis in TV Interview: ‘Maybe It Needed to Come Out’
usmagazine.comAn unexpected revelation. Ashton Kutcher claimed that he didn’t initially plan on coming forward with his vasculitis diagnosis.The 44-year-old No Strings Attached actor’s fight with the rare autoimmune disorder became public knowledge during an August 2022 episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge.
Kutcher told Esquire in an interview published on Tuesday, January 31, that he didn’t think the conversation would air.“At the end of the day, I have to look at it and be like, ‘All right, well, maybe it needed to come out,'” the That ’70s Show alum added. “Maybe somebody will see this and go, ‘Oh, this is helpful for me in some way knowing this’ … hopefully that helps.”News of his health scare caused widespread concern for the Iowa native, but he didn’t want to be viewed differently. “I ran a f–king marathon,” he said, noting that he’d like to “pass” on questions about his condition. “Are you OK?
Everybody goes through s–t.”While appearing on the wilderness show last summer, Kutcher opened up to Bear Grylls about being left bedridden by a bout with illness. (According to Esquire, a spokesperson for Grylls did not respond when asked to comment on Kutcher’s claims.)“Two years ago, I had this weird, super rare form of vasculitis, that, like, knocked out my vision, it knocked out my hearing, it knocked out, like, all my equilibrium,” the Two and a Half Men alum said in the August 2022 clip. “You don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone.
Until you go, ‘I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to see again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to hear again, I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to walk again.'”Kutcher asserted at the time that he felt “lucky to be alive,” adding: “The minute you start
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