Anthony Anderson
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200 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Anthony Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, popping my shit, my dad popping his shit, making money, getting paid as a teenager. Then from there... my father started opening stores. And when he opened the stores, it was for plus size women because my mom was a plus size. So he was just catering to the women he loved. So it was plus size women in children's clothing. And that's what he did, man. And what did Doris do?
I know she wanted to be an actor. She wanted to be an actor. My mother was a telephone operator for the County of Los Angeles.
Yeah, yeah. And she worked at a hospital, Harbor General UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. And you had a little brother. Two little brothers and a sister. My sister's the baby. I'm the oldest. I lost my youngest brother about 20 years ago now in a car accident while he was at West Texas A&M College playing football. Oh, yeah, because they're probably huge like your dad. Yeah.
So we lost him and then a year later lost my dad. So it's three children now, me, my brother Derek and my sister Doris.
I processed it as best as I could or as best as I knew how. And I don't think I've really processed it as an adult.
Yeah. What year? This was almost 20 years ago. So I was in my 30s. I was successful. Well, good. He saw that. Yeah, I've been successful a while. So he got a chance to see all of that stuff. But you know what? When I go to my therapist, I'm going to talk to my therapist about this. You're giving me something to talk to him about because I don't really think I fully process the death of my father.
Yeah. My dad, it's sad how it happened because I'm a type two diabetic. I was the first person diagnosed with type two diabetes in my family. I started getting healthy and I started partnering with Eli Lilly and now Novo Nordisk, bringing awareness about diabetes to the inner city, in particular black men. They over index, right? Yeah, very much so.
Because I lost my father to complications of diabetes. And what was fucked up, he had diabetes for probably 20, 25 years undiagnosed. Without knowing.
That's rough, right? You're peeing all the time.
You're fatigued. Dad's just tired. You know, this is a teenager growing up and all this other shit. He's like, why does dad have a bucket next to the bed? Because he would fucking just roll over and piss in the bucket next to his bed. Yeah, because he's peeing nonstop. Once I was diagnosed as a diabetic, I was like, oh shit, this is what my father had.
As I was growing up, I'm looking at the symptoms I have and I'm looking at the symptoms he had. It had gotten to a point where, I don't know what it's called, but we say it's elephantitis, where his lower extremities were all fucking one size from the knee down to the ankle and to the foot. And it was swole and was hard as this table.
And then he developed leaking ulcers on the back of both of his calves. Wow. And it became painful for him to walk. So I had to get him a cane and a roller walker. At this point, my father's in his 60s and he just let himself go. So now he's really just a big man. By the time he was diagnosed, diabetes had wreaked havoc on his body. And I took him to the best endocrinologist that I could find.
We tried to nurse him back to health. And he was in the hospital for a couple of months, had a pulmonary embolism while he was in the hospital. But they were able to catch it and save him, then released him to a rehab center, and then they let him go home. So we had a nurse that would come to him daily. And then one day I went to visit my dad, and my brother, his nickname was Tuga.
That's my brother that passed. And I was talking to my dad. He was laying in his bed, and I was in his bedroom just leaning up against his dresser speaking to him. And I was like, hey, what's going on, pops? How you doing? He said, I'm all right. He said, I saw Tuga last night. I was like, really? He said, yeah, he just sat on the edge of the bed right there. I said, and what'd you guys do?
He said, we just talked. I was like, oh, really?
Yeah, right, right, right. I believe in ghosts and all that. So when he was telling me my brother came to visit him, I was like, oh, okay, it's time. And not long after that, man, he died on Valentine's Day. I was going to work. I was filming The Shield. And I got a call in the middle of the night from his nurse and said, we lost your dad. Oh, man. And, uh...
Yeah, that's why I'm so adamant about going around the world and just talking about diabetes and giving my testimonial and just talking to men. I know I got it from being a glutton and from not eating the right shit and for doing all this other shit that I did throughout my life that contributed to it. I'll say that much.
You know what's crazy? I was living in New Orleans for a while, shooting a show there. That place will give you gout. Yeah, I was like, I'm going to be healthy. Not the place. I was eating nothing but seafood and shellfish. I was like, oh, I'm just eating seafood and shellfish. But 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. And I hit it and I was like, ow, I think I broke my toe. And I finished the scene. Then we moved locations. We were filming in a hotel in the middle of the night and I was laying 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.
And I was like, oh yeah, I broke my toe. I went to the doctor the next day, limping in. They were like, what's wrong, Mr. Anderson? I was like, 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, I ain't got the gout. That's not for me.
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