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"You're taking yourself too seriously," the doctor told her
Chelsea Handler has revealed what happened during her hospital scare in February, which saw her cancel multiple stops on her Vaccinated & Horny tour.
Speaking with E!, the comic was asked if "not taking yourself too seriously" really was the key to happiness.
"Well, it's funny you mention that," Handler answered, "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?'"
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"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."
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Q&A, Handler spoke at length about finding unexpected love with Jo Koy.
"I would never have been open to dating Jo Koy unless I had had therapy," she admitted.
"Jo was the first person in my life who I didn't want to leave," Handler explained. "He was the first man, romantically, in a long time that didn't annoy me."
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"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.
She's so in love she's going to write a book about their romance!
"I mean, talk about an evolution," Handler said acknowledging her own surprise at where she's found herself.
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