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Tom Hanks Has Diabetes Because He Was An “Idiot”

Tom Hanks has admitted that the reason he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes back in 2013 was down to him being a “total idiot” in his youth.

During his recent discussion with the Radio Times, via Metro, ahead of the release of ‘A Hologram For The King’, the two-time Oscar winning actor blamed his past eating habits for the disease.

“I’m part of the lazy American generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady,” Hanks poetically explained. “I was heavy. You’ve seen me in movies, you know what I looked like. I was a total idiot.”

Tom Hanks most memorably shed weight for his role in 2000′s ‘Cast Away,’ while he also previously admitted that he put on weight for 1992′s ‘A League Of Their Own,’ too.

Since he became a father at the age of 21, Hanks insisted that his diabetes diagnosis wasn’t the result of booze or drugs, but simply because of his fluctuating weight.

Hanks revealed that he tried different techniques to try and keep his diet in check, though, noting, “I thought I could avoid it by removing the buns from my cheeseburgers. Well, it takes a little bit more than that.”

However, despite Hanks’ frank admission the actor has been told by his doctor that if he can get to a target weight then he will no longer have Type 2 diabetes.

Thankfully Tom Hanks’ health concerns haven’t stopped the actor from appearing on screen, though. In fact, over the next year we’ll get to see him not just in ‘A Hologram For The King’, but in ‘Sully’, ‘Inferno’, and ‘The Circle’, too.

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