<\/p>\n
John Goodman has revealed that he underwent stomach surgery during his efforts to control his weight. The 74-year-old actor also described developing anemia and losing a layer of fat beneath his skin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m cold all the time,\u201d he told The New Yorker<\/a> in an interview published October 18. He did not identify the procedure or say when it was performed.<\/p>\n The \u201cRoseanne\u201d star has been sober since 2007, when he was 55. In the conversation, also covered by Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, he recalled reaching a point when his drinking had left him facing hospitalization.<\/p>\n Goodman spoke from the Charleston, South Carolina, home he shares with his wife, Anna Beth. The couple moved there after roughly three decades in New Orleans. He had come to know Charleston while working on \u201cThe Righteous Gemstones.\u201d<\/p>\n At his heaviest, Goodman said, he was close to 400 pounds. He could lose 60 pounds over a summer, sometimes 70 or 80, only to put the weight back on. Repeating that process became exhausting.<\/p>\n Quitting alcohol did not immediately change his relationship with food. He described what followed as \u201ceating alcoholically.\u201d<\/p>\nGoodman\u2019s Weight Loss Began Before He Stopped Drinking<\/h2>\n