Harvey Weinstein
‘Quickly Deteriorating’ Behind Bars …
Weight Achieve, Extreme Tongue Irritation
Printed
Harvey Weinstein‘s well being is failing … with the disgraced film producer quickly gaining weight and affected by extreme tongue irritation in New York Metropolis’s infamous Rikers Island jail.
Juda Engelmayer — a rep for Weinstein — tells TMZ … Harvey’s well being is “rapidly deteriorating in custody,” exacerbated by the horrible situations at Rikers.
JANUARY 2024
Getty
We’re instructed Weinstein has gained greater than 25 kilos since being transferred again from Bellevue Hospital a number of months in the past … 19 of these kilos within the final month alone.
This fast weight achieve provides critical dangers to his diabetes and coronary heart situation, Juda tells us … and, compounding his well being issues is extreme tongue irritation, making it troublesome to swallow, which has spurred actual issues he’ll choke to dying. Weinstein, Juda says, is at present again at Bellevue so medical doctors can deal with his tongue an infection.
Juda provides, “Ongoing issues with missed and delayed medications, chest palpitations that go unaddressed, and a lack of support for his serious mobility issues” are additionally plaguing Weinstein … amounting to a medical disaster that should be addressed.
As well as, we’re instructed situations at Rikers are merely terrible … with inmates struggling freezing temperatures, an absence of unpolluted garments, and insufficient meals — and, all of that is harming Weinstein’s well being much more.
As … Weinstein has been coping with well being points behind bars for years — touchdown in native Bellevue Hospital a number of occasions — coping with double pneumonia, a leukemia analysis, and present process coronary heart surgical procedure … all previously 12 months.
Weinstein — who continues to be protesting his innocence after he was convicted of rape and several other different crimes again in 2022 — has spoken out from jail in current days, nonetheless advocating for himself … and, throwing himself in the identical boat as actor Justin Baldoni. Weinstein inserted himself within the Baldoni-Blake Vigorous authorized battle, accusing The New York Instances of cherry-picking data to suit a sure narrative in each of their circumstances.
TMZ.com
In the meantime, Weinstein is pushing for his rape retrial to start … begging again in January, “I need to be out of this hellhole … I need this to be over with.”
We have reached out to the New York Metropolis Division of Corrections … up to now, no phrase again.
