Ethan Suplee On Shedding 300 Pounds, Ditching Drugs & What It Really Takes To Transform Your Life

My bottom was being diagnosed with congestive heart failure. I'm going to bed every night, damn near 500 pounds. Pretty sure I'm gonna die. I'm doing an obscene amount of drugs and drugs are not getting me really high. And what would happen is I'd get sick for a couple of days and the swelling would go down.

And then I'd use and the drugs would have their potency back. But a couple days in the swelling would return. The swelling's moving up my legs. Then it gets to my groin and it's really uncomfortable.

So then I'm just using and miserable and swollen and in pain. And the doctor says you have congestive heart failure. You are going to die. And she's crying and this is like my family doctor from when I'm a little kid. How old are you now?

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