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Al Roker Talks 2022 Health Scare, How He Prevented It From Being Worse


Al Roker opened up about his 2022 health scare involving blood clots and internal bleeding, sharing how fitness and determination saved his life

After briefly returning home, Roker was rushed to the hospital again in December 2022 with internal bleeding due to ulcers. Courtesy of Al Roker/Instagram“There’s no magic bullet,” he told People, noting that surgery and weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic are a “means,” but “not the end.” “It was funny [because] we were in the ‘friend zone,’” the Today meteorologist recalled of romancing his now-wife, an NBC correspondent, during a February 2021 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

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