ACTOR TOM HANKS DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES

THE ‘CASTAWAY’ ACTOR REVEALS HIS DIABETES DIAGNOSIS AS HE APPEARS ON ‘LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN’, ADDING ON TWITTER THAT THE DISEASE CAN BE MANAGED ‘WITH GOOD HABITS.’

Hanks has been battling high blood sugar for years, he recently revealed that he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The ‘Captain Philips’ actor also talked about the diagnosed as he appeared on the late show with David Letterman on Monday 7^th October.

Tom who is an Oscar winning actor said on the show “I went to the doctor and he said, ‘you know those high-blood-sugar numbers you’ve been dealing with since you were 36? Well, you’ve graduated. You’ve got Type 2 diabetes, young man”. While he also added “It’s controllable. … Something’s going to kill us all, Dave”.

Tom’s doctors then told him he could defeat the disease if he could return back to the weight that he was in high school. Tom, although felt that it wouldn’t be possible. “I weighed 96 pounds in high school. I was a very skinny boy. And you know, most of that was that big white Afro that I wore back in the ’70s,” Hanks said.

After the revelation, Hanks took it to twitter to reassure his fans that the disease is controllable stating “Yep, I have #2 diabetes. Type 1 is VERY SERIOUS! Type 2 I can manage with good habits. I shall! Hanx,” he wrote the next day.

Tom’s  upcoming Film “Captain Philip will hit the US theatres on October 11^th. Hanks plays Captain Richard Philips, whose boat gets hijacked by Somalian pirates.