Oh, how it never ends! As you know, Jeremy Piven had to drop out of the Broadway play Speed the Plow due to mercury poisoning which he received from eating too much sushi. Now, these recent pictures have surfaced of Piven with a very red, bloody and irritated looking nose. Apparently sushi overdosing has been rough on Piv.
I predict another exhaustion and stress announcement coming up!
After Jeremy Piven had to drop out of his Broadway show, Speed the Plow, because he ate too much sushi, William H. Macy has stepped up to the plate to replace him. Macy will take over Piven’s role on January 13. Hopefully he’ll stay away from spicy tuna!
Holy tuna! So you know the high mercury levels that Jeremy Piven cited in his decision to abruptly quit his Broadway play? It was apparently the result of … too much sushi?
“He was eating sushi twice a day and taking some Chinese herbs,” Dr. Carlon Colker, Piven’s physician and the executive officer and medical director of Peak Wellness, tells E! News. “I tested his heavy metals and his mercury was amazingly, shockingly high.”
Colker said that Piven’s mercury levels were roughly six times the amount an average body can handle. Colker said he made the diagnosis, as well as the play-exiting recommendation, after weeks of the Entourage star complaining of fatigue, with symptoms coming to a head this week.
The good doctor said the recently minted Golden Globe nominee experienced a dizzy spell and was unable to remember his lines, a one-two combo that apparently so worried the doc, he sent the actor to receive medical care.
“He was literally paralytic. He couldn’t move after the shows.”
Colker was quick to note that his recommendation to leave the play after two months, as well as Piven’s decision, did not come about lightly.
“He is someone who has been acting for three decades, 17 hours a day. He’s really been an iron horse, so this is unusual for him. He really wanted to tough this out. It’s always been his dream to be on Broadway. But sometimes, the risks outweigh the benefits.”
The risks associated with mercury poisoning run the gamut from cardiac arrest, kidney failure, psychological problems and sometimes even death.
So there you have it, kids. Next time, think twice before downing a shitload of spicy tuna rolls at happy hour. Just stick to the martinis.
Has anyone ever heard of this problem? I’ve never heard of anyone overdosing on sushi before.
“I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.”
Playwright David Mamet, discussing Jeremy Piven’s abrupt decision to quit his lead role in Broadway’s Speed the Plow, citing high levels of mercury. Mamet wrote the play, which will continue with a replacement actor. It’s been rumored that Piven’s hard-partying ways are the real reason he couldn’t keep up with the rigorous schedule of a Broadway play.
T-shirt over a hoodie?
With pinstripe dress pants and belt?
And he hasn’t shaved in three days?
Here’s the saddest part: I’d still fuck him in a heartbeat.
Let’s be honest: I’d gang-bang the whole cast of Entourage. Including Emmanuelle Chriqui. Especially Emmanuelle Chriqui.
“It was my hope that in texting both ladies, I would make it onto Page Six, so everybody wins.”
Jeremy Piven, who got busted texting ‘Come meet me’ to two models he met separately at a party in NYC. Unbeknownst to Piven, the two women were friends, and showed each other the text messages and laughed about it. This is what Jeremy — who’s supposed to be exclusively dating model Lillian Grant — had to say when Page Six confronted him with the story.
I adore this guy.
I’m really hoping this is a joke, because if not the world has gone truly mad. Piven and Cusack, buddies from way back, are now on the outs.
If this is true it’s worse than any divorce or Trump-Rosie nonsense because it’s just two guys who should have no reason to ever quarrel, you know?
Sigh. Here are the relevant quotes from this article:
“No comment. I mean, you could fill in the blank, I bet,” the 41-year-old actor says when asked how Cusack has handled Piven’s recent success. “It just says so much about a person if he has space for other people’s success,” he says.
“I have always been so proud of my friends’ success. I own that proudly because I come by it naturally. I was raised on that spirit of collaboration. … You start getting into trouble in life when you start comparing and contrasting your life to anyone else’s. You don’t win when you do that.”
So Cusack is jealous of Piven? This sounds too loony to be true, and it could be a practical joke. Yes, that must be it, because I’ve never had a guy friend knock me for being the biggest writer on the planet, though clearly that’s the case.
If it is true, guys, c’mon. Let’s not let the system get in the way of a few beers and some laughs. Jobs come and go, women hate us, we gots to stick together my brothers.
