"I’m healthy as hell," the actor maintained after a clip from the film's Los Angeles premiere appeared to show him looking unsteady.with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment. A proud Kingston University alum, Emlyn has written about music, fandom, film, television, and awards for multiple outlets including MTV News,premiere in Los Angeles appeared to show him looking unsteady and holding onto his costar, Will Smith, onstage.
“Now Martin, everybody’s talking you on the balcony waving at people, looking around, where you’re looking around? Were you looking around like, ‘Yo, this is massive?’” host Ebro Darden asked. “Because people took it like there was something wrong with your health.”Instead, Lawrence explained that he was simply surprised by the crowd size at the event. “I was like, oh, this is rock concert stuff,” he teased.
Darden then asked Lawrence for a second time if he had “anything you want to say to the people because they’re concerned about your health,” but the comedian shot down the speculation. “I’m fine. I’m in God’s hands,” Lawrence said. “I’m blessed, you know? I’m glad to be waking up every day. I’m all good. No need for people to be concerned.”
He reiterated his clean bill of health once again at the end of the interview, declaring, “I’m healthy as hell. Stop the rumors!”Lawrence has faced his own health issues in the past. In May 1996, he was hospitalized after running into a Los Angeles intersection while screaming. His publicist laterthat a doctor had found that he’d been suffering from “a case of complete exhaustion and dehydration” at the time.