Pauly Shore has shared an emotional video about a recent health scare, which saw him undergoing surgery to have a tumor removed from his pancreas.
The 57-year-old actor and comedian posted the video on Instagram on Wednesday (August 27), where he spoke from a hospital bed, detailing how he was about to have surgery to remove a benign tumor from his pancreas that showed up in a preventative scan.
In the clip, he joked with a nurse about how he was set to undergo a “brain transplant,” before saying he has “a devil that’s in me” that has to be taken out.
“About three months ago, I went in for a preventative scan in Las Vegas at SimonMed, where they scan your body from head to toe,” he explained in the post’s caption. “They check for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, you name it. Being in my 50s, I thought it was the right thing to do. A week later, they called me with the results. They noticed something in my abdominal area. It was a tumor inside my pancreas.”
“Thankfully, my tumor was benign, it might have been there for 15 to 20 years. It wasn’t an emergency, but my doctor felt removing it was the right thing to do,” he added.
Even though the former MTV VJ felt relieved that the tumor was benign, he said of the situation, “Mentally, it really messed with me. Knowing there was a tumor inside me… Could it grow? Burst? Turn into something worse? You just don’t know.”
He continued, “I’ve always been on top of my health. Going to the gym, using saunas, massages, having my teeth checked, doing blood work, colonoscopies, chiropractor, etc., but I had never done a full-body scan. I had no symptoms. This was just me following my instincts.”
Shore noted that he underwent surgery on August 21 with Dr. Nicholas Nissen at Cedars-Sinai and praised the doctors, nurses, and other staff who assisted him during his hospital stay.
In the video, Shore opened up post-surgery, sitting outside of the hospital, where he revealed the operation was a success. At one point, he broke into tears, saying, “You never know what the f*** is inside your body. It’s been tough. The aftermath of an abdomen surgery is pretty f***ing hard… It’s just wild. It’s been a lot.”
Shore is now back home and recovering. “I’m all right, and I’m healing every day,” he wrote. “I love you all, Pauly.”