The gout is no joke, according to Anthony Anderson.
During an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, Anderson revealed what led to his diagnosis.
“I was living in New Orleans for a while, shooting a show there,” he said, “I was eating nothing but seafood and shellfish.”
“All the purine in the shellfish contributed to my buildup of uric acid and — I’ll never forget — I was in the scene, and I went to kick a door in,” he explained. “And I hit it. And I said, ‘I think I broke my toe.
According to Verywell Health, “High levels of uric acid can cause gout,” which is “when uric acid crystals form in a joint, most commonly the big toe.” Anderson, who already has type 2 diabetes, is more two twice as likely to contract the condition.
Although the pain was intense, the former Black-ish star noted that he finished the scene.
“I finished the scene, then we moved locations. We were filming in a hotel in the middle of the night, and I was lying across the bed, and they said, ‘Action,’ and I jumped up to run and chase the perp, and I put pressure on my right foot, and I collapsed, he recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, broke my toe.’ I went to the doctor the next day, limping.”
At his doctor’s visit, he shared, ‘I kicked the door and I think I broke my toe.’ They’re looking at it like, ‘I don’t think you broke your toe.’ I said, ‘Yeah, no, I think I broke my toe.’ They’re like, ‘You might have the gout.’ I was like, ‘No, ain’t got the gout. ‘ “
After an X-ray to “humor me,” Anderson said, his doctor informed him, “We’ve got good news and bad news. Which one do you want first?’ “
“I was like, ‘The good news.’ ‘All right, you didn’t break your toe.’ ‘What’s the bad news?’ ‘You got the gout.’
“You motherf—–,” Anderson laughed.. “If you look at it, it looks red hot. If you put your hand above it, you can feel the heat coming off of it.”