Before
Kathy
Bates
was
cast
in
Matlock,
she
set
out
on
a
personal
journey.
“I’ve
lost
100
pounds,
and
it
all
just
coincided
beautifully
so
that
physically
I’m
capable
of
doing
this
show,”
she
told
People
in
a
video
shared
Oct.
9. “I
don’t
have
to
sit
down.
I
can
stand
up
all
day
long
and
walk
and
move
and
breathe
and
do
so
many
things
that
I
couldn’t
do
before.”
As
the
Oscar
winner
noted,
she
wanted
to
lose
the
weight
for
her
health.
“I
was
diagnosed
with
diabetes,”
she
added. “It
runs
in
my
family,
and
I’d
seen
what
my
father
had
gone
through.
He’d
had
a
leg
amputation.
One
of
my
sisters
is
dealing
with
it
very
seriously.
And
it
terrified
me,
and
it
just
scared
me
straight.
I
thought,
‘I’ve
got
to
do
something.’
So
I
thought,
‘OK.
I’ll
give
this
a
go.'”
Kathy
said
she
changed
what
she
ate
and
started
using
Ozempic.
However,
there’s
a
point
she
wants
to
clarify.
“The
last
year
and
a
half
there’s
been
a
lot
of
talk, ‘Oh,
she’s
done
this
on
Ozempic’
and
stuff,”
the
Misery
star
continued. “And
I
just
want
to
lay
that
to
rest
here.
I
lost
about
80
pounds,
and
then
the
last
15
or
20
is
always
the
hardest.
So
when
Ozempic
came
out,
I
thought,
OK,
and
I
went
to
my
doctor.
She
said, ‘Let’s
give
this
a
go.’
So
I
was
able
to
do
the
last.
But
I
have
to
impress
upon
people
out
there
that
this
was
hard
work
for
me.”
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