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Chelsea Handler had a hospital scare back in February where she cancelled two shows that she just chose to open up about. She was asked by E! if “not taking yourself too seriously” was really the key to happiness where she said, “it’s funny you mention that because I had a hospital scare after a show in Seattle a couple months ago. I had this cardiomyopathy, which means, like, an adrenaline shot to the heart. I was like, ‘Was this an instance, or was this building?’ And the doctor says, ‘Well, it’s an instance, but you’ve basically been very stressed for a long period of time and you probably did not recognize that.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, s–t.'”
“And he goes, ‘I don’t know a lot about you, but isn’t your whole shtick that you don’t take yourself too seriously?’ And I went, ‘Yeah…’ And he goes, ‘Well then you should start taking your own advice because you’re taking yourself too seriously.’ And I thought, ‘God, you’re right. What am I doing here? I’m stressed out so much that I landed in the hospital?'”
“I’m fine now,” she reassured. “But I was like, ‘Good advice: Practice what you preach.’ It was a good reminder to let everything go.”
She also went on gushing about her romance with Jo Koy where she said he “was the first person in my life who I didn’t want to leave.” She explained “He was the first man, romantically, in a long time that didn’t annoy me.” And she credits therapy for the progress saying, “I would never have been open to dating Jo Koy unless I had had therapy.”
“So, to have a slow burn where I was hanging out with Jo for a year before anything transpired was something I had never experienced,” she continued. “Everyone said, ‘You can fall in love with your friends.’ And I was like, ‘No you can’t.'”
“It wasn’t there in the beginning and it developed over time and then I fell madly in love with him and I’m still in love with him,” Handler said.
Well we’re definitely glad to see Chelsea happy and more importantly healthy. I mean what would the world be without Chelsea Handler? We still miss her late night talk show Chelsea Lately. She said before she was taking a working break to fight former President Trump. Well now that he’s out of office, she’s got plenty of time to make us laugh now.
