To my knowledge, I am healthy.
Bachelor star Joey Grazade is responding to social media users
who have expressed concern about his yellow eyes during his
season of the ABC dating show.
In a February 29th tick tock video,
Joey explains there's a biological reason for the discoloration.
Hi everyone, I hope you are having a beautiful day.
I wanted to jump on here really quick and talk
about something that I am seeing a lot of comments
about,
which is Joey's yellow eyes.
So to give some context on that,
I have to go all the way back to when
I was in high school.
I was sick for about a week and a half,
and my mom thought it'd be a good idea to
go to the doctor.
When I went to the doctor,
I had blood work done,
and the blood work showed that my bilirubin count was
very high.
That means that there could be something that was wrong
with my liver.
So we went and I got a liver ultrasound.
I went to other doctors,
They found out that there was nothing that was necessarily
wrong,
like hepatitis, but they diagnosed you with something called Joubert
syndrome.
Gilbert Syndrome.
At the end of the day,
I am told that I am healthy.
It's something that does affect the whites of my eyes.
It makes it have those jaundice levels,
which is why they look a little bit more yellow.
It's something I want to pay attention to more going
into this year.
I want to get my health right and make sure
that I'm all good.
But I at least wanted to give some background,
let you know that to my knowledge,
I am healthy. It's just something that I have to
pay attention to.
Drinking more fluids. It is worse when I have stress
or lack of sleep,
which happens on ATV show.
And I do appreciate everyone looking out for me and
wondering if I'm OK,
but to my knowledge I'm as OK as I can
be and I will continue to look at it.
So thank you very much.
Joey recently sat down for an interview with e-news and
discussed insecurities that come into play with the show.
It's you dealing with your own insecurities,
taking in the women's insecurities,
realizing that when there's something as serious as an engagement
at the end,
you're going to second guess things.
You're going to question if you're the right person to
go through this,
all those things. They start to come out and I
think that I tried as much as I can to
not shy away from having those conversations.
But what happens in the end is an unprecedented,
shocking first in Bachelor history.
How are you bracing your fans to get ready for
what that is?
I think all I'm trying to do is,
as you see, is just be honest about my emotions
and I think you will understand what it is.
When it gets to that point.
Fans will have to stick around to see what really
went down in this emotional season finale when Joey left
us on the edge of our seats with.
I didn't expect that at all.
I can't think that's happened before.
I don't even know what to say.
I know I gave as much as I could really
like this.
I don't know, it feels wrong,
but I don't know what to do.