Kathleen Turner drama: diva Brivido Caldo appeared in a wheelchair at a charity dinner in New York where, practically unrecognizable compared to the Hollywood sex symbols of the 90s, she spoke openly about serious health problems that had a major impact on her body.
Turner is 71 years old. Interviewed by the Daily Mail, the star of Romancing the Green Stone and Prizzi’s Honor shared the cumulative effects of the chronic autoimmune disease he has suffered from for more than thirty years. “I use a wheelchair because rheumatoid arthritis, which I have suffered for 35 years, has taken its toll. But…I’m here,” said the voice of Jessica Rabbit on the sidelines of the Citymeals on Wheels event at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
With two Golden Globe awards behind her, an Oscar nomination for Peggy Sue Got Married and a Tony nomination for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Kathleen has been living with the disease that has devastated her life since 1991 when rheumatoid arthritis first manifested itself with “unexplained pain and fever.”
When, a year later, the doctor’s diagnosis arrived, Kathleen could barely turn her head or walk: “My body responded with excruciating pain every time I tried to move. The joints in my hands were so swollen that I couldn’t hold a pen. My feet were so swollen that I couldn’t wear any kind of shoes. For days I couldn’t lift a glass”, confided the former Hollywood femme fatale who only three years earlier, in The War of the Roses, played a former gymnast, performing most of the stunts without the help of a stunt double.
As the disease progresses, problems with alcohol appear. The former sex symbol’s career took a nosedive: she entered remission eight years later, Kathleen returned to work in TV (in three episodes of Friends as trans father Chandler) and more recently, alongside former co-star Michael Douglas, in the Netflix drama The Kominsky Method, but it was never the same again.
Last summer, with the help of a cane, Kathleen walked the New York red carpet in the film Roses, a remake of the black comedy starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, which, along with Douglas and Danny De Vito, remains one of her most famous films.
Now step the wheelchair. When asked by the Daily Mail how she manages her symptoms, Turner admitted that she “prefers not to deal with them,” highlighting the daily difficulties of living with chronic pain.
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