Amy Schumer Reveals Why She Stopped Using Ozempic

Amy Schumer has opened up about her experience using the popular Type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic, which also doubles as a weight loss drug.

The actress revealed that being on the medication, along with having the “GD15 gene,” made it difficult for her to continue taking the drug.

This comes almost two years after Amy Schumer called out celebrities for lying about using Ozempic despite looking considerably slimmer.

“I have this gene, GDF15, which makes you extremely prone to nausea, which is why I was so sick during my pregnancy,” she told Stern while recounting her “horrible experience” with the drug.

Schumer continued, “So, I tried Ozempic almost three years ago, and I was like, veteran. I was like, vomiting — and then you have no energy. But other people take it and they’re all good. God bless them.”

The actress further noted that despite losing “30 pounds so quick” and looking “great,” she couldn’t “lift [her] head off the pillow” as she felt extremely nauseous while on the drug.

In 2023, during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Schumer criticized stars for denying their use of Ozempic.

The 43-year-old actress urged celebrities to “just stop hiding” and be transparent about their reliance on diabetes medication.

In addition to criticizing her fellow celebrities, Schumer admitted that the drug made her both “skinny” and “sick,” preventing her from engaging in playtime activities with her then-three-year-old son, Gene.

“You are on Ozempic or one of those things, or you got work done,” Schumer said, per The Blast. “Just stop [hiding their use of the Type II diabetes drug.]. Be real with the people. When I got lipo, I said I got lipo.”

The comedian noted that she had tried Ozempic but found the side effects unbearable and unsuitable as a weight loss solution.

“I was one of those people that felt so sick and couldn’t play with my son,” she stated at the time. “I was so skinny, and he’s throwing a ball at me, and [I couldn’t].”

Schumer recently appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, where she told host Alex Cooper that brutal comments about her having a “moon” face led to her discovering that she had Cushing Syndrome.

“A year ago, the Internet really came for me. I was like, ‘Okay, everybody, like, relax,”‘ the actress said, per The Mirror.

She went on to say that as she scrolled through the remarks, she also found comments from doctors, which led her to take the comments more seriously at the time.

“Doctors were chiming in in the comments and they were, like, ‘No, no, something’s really up. Your face looks so crazy.’ At first, I was like, ‘F-ck off,'” Schumer said, adding that she was later able to connect the dots.

She continued, “So I was getting these steroid injections, and so it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome — which I wouldn’t have known if the internet hadn’t come for me so hard.”

Still, on Cooper’s podcast, Schumer shared details about an intimate encounter she had with a professional athlete while speaking about her “craziest fan interaction.”

“I guess them eating me out, right? I mean, that’s crazy,” Schumer told Cooper. “You know what? I’m just gonna get right into this here, and I’ve never said this anywhere.”

“When I was sort of at my kind of peak, touring arenas—and I’ll say it because this is where you say it—were they a professional athlete? Sure,” the actress continued. “Did I text them, like, late at night and they came over, they went down on me and I said, ‘I’m so tired, I’m so sorry,’ and they left? Yes.”

Although Schumer didn’t reveal the athlete’s identity, she noted that he was a baseball player who attended one of her shows and said he was “pretty cool about” her asking him to leave because she was “tired.”

During the interview on “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon asked Schumer to tell the audience about an awkward encounter she had with actor Bradley Cooper.

Schumer, eager to share, began by saying that she ran into the actor sometime ago and introduced herself with “How are you?”

However, instead of receiving a typical response, Cooper’s reply took a turn that seemingly left her ego in tatters.

She recounted him saying, “You know, I turned 50 this year,” which he followed up with, “You 50?”

Unsurprisingly, the revelation had Fallon and the audience in fits of laughter. Once the laughter died down, Schumer revealed she was actually only 43 before repeating Cooper’s two-word remark to let it sink in.

‘”You 50?” Yeah, no, I’m not Bradley. You know, I’m not,” the actress said, per the Daily Mail, which made Fallon continue to laugh aloud. “But thank you for thinking of me.”