Stephen Fry reveals Ozempic diet pill made him vomit five times a day

Stephen Fry has revealed how he started taking Ozempic to lose weight but had to stop taking it after the drug made him vomit up to five times a day.

The 66-year-old actor and comedian said he received the vaccine, a treatment originally designed for people with diabetes, “a few years ago” from doctors in the United States.

Speaking on the River Cafe Table 4 podcast, Frye described how his first week of using Ozempic gave him “amazing” results, leading him to believe he had found a “brilliant” solution to his weight loss efforts.

“I was an early adopter of these things,” said Frye, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018. “I happened to be in the United States and I read about it.”

“I asked my doctor in America, my doctor, as they like to call them, and he said, ‘I think I can give you some’.

“He tried me and [for] About the first week I was thinking, ‘This is amazing. Not only did I not want to eat, I also didn’t want to drink any alcohol. It’s going to be great.”

“Then I started feeling sick and it was getting worse and worse. I was vomiting four or five times a day and I thought, ‘I can’t do this’. That was it.”

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Back in August 2019, the actor told BBC Breakfast that after weighing nearly 21 stone in April that year, he lost 5 stone in four months by walking more and eating right.

It’s unclear whether the weight loss coincided with Fry’s time on Ozempic.

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Fry told British Broadcasting Corporation: “I find that I do a lot of walking, which also helps my mood. It’s not guaranteed to help with mental stress and anxiety or anything, but it does help me and means I can listen while walking With audiobooks, and podcasts, you eat up the miles and talk about eating well and eating wisely.”

Ozempic works by suppressing your appetite and prolonging the time food stays in your stomach, causing weight loss – at least while you continue taking it.

The drug has been banned as a treatment for obesity in the UK after high demand for the drug led to global shortages.