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Mark Ruffalo’s Health: Updates on the Actor After His Brain Tumor Revelation

The Marvel Cinematic Universe actor was told he had a tumor ‘the size of a golf ball’ in 2001.

Image Credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock Mark Ruffalo shocked fans everywhere when he revealed that doctors found a brain tumor in his head during the early years of his acting career. the Hulk — recently opened up on the “Smartless” podcast about the moment he told his wife, Sunrise, that he had a tumor right after she gave birth to their first child, son Keen, in 2001. “When I told Sunny about it, at first she thought I was joking, and then she just burst into tears and said, ‘I always knew you were gonna die young,’” Mark said, before adding that he had to meet a neurologist about a “week after the baby” was born and decided to tell Sunrise “the night before” his appointment.

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