Ashton Kutcher revealed that an autoimmune dysfunction took away his vision, listening to and capacity to stroll.
In a sneak peek of a brand new episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge, obtained by Access Hollywood, Kutcher mentioned he developed a uncommon autoimmune dysfunction known as vasculitis, which may trigger irritation of the blood vessels.
“Like 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,” he mentioned. “It took me like a year to build it all back up. You don’t really appreciate it until it’s gone.”
Kutcher added that he was “lucky to be alive”, whereas Grylls marvelled at his power. Kutcher defined how he reframed the hardship as a possibility to persevere and make the perfect of a foul state of affairs.
“The minute you start seeing your obstacles as things that are made for you, to give you what you need, then life starts to get fun, right?” Kutcher defined. “You start surfing on top of your problems instead of living underneath them.”
Last month, Kutcher and B.J. Novak sat down with The Times to debate their new challenge, Vengeance, the primary marquee film function for Kutcher in practically a decade.
Novak stars as Ben Manalowitz, a pretentious New York author who travels to rural West Texas to make a true-crime podcast investigating the overdose dying of a former romantic hookup. There, Ben meets Kutcher’s Quentin Sellers, a document producer and self-styled cowboy thinker who charms Ben with his perceptive musings about social media, storytelling and the deepening divide between pink and blue America — earlier than issues take a darker flip.
“I’ve been running a big investment fund, investing in early-stage startup technology for like the last 15 years, and I was at a place, between that and running our nonprofit, where I kind of just lost the fun in acting,” Kutcher instructed The Times about his hiatus.
“Then this script came and it really embodied what I felt was the state of America right now, with one perspective on the coasts and another perspective in the middle of the country and both sides vilifying one another. I thought it was really beautiful.” – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
