In 2013, 15 years after their wedding, Chuck Norris and his wife Gena O’Kelley heard from doctors that the woman suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. A few days after the MRI, she fainted and later began to feel burning and increasing pain in various parts of her body. – I was in the emergency room for 5 or 6 nights in a row, and the symptoms were getting worse, the burning sensation was still spreading throughout my body – she said in one of the conversations. At one point, she reportedly felt as if “something was burning her from the inside.”
Chuck Norris gave up his career for his wife. “It’s a priority for me”
– When we started treatment, she couldn’t swallow, so we had to feed her baby food through the esophagus – said the actor. – Chuck slept on the couch next to me in the hospital and hardly went outside. It was a difficult time for the family, but one that we managed to get through thanks to his support, Gena said in an interview.
I gave up my film career to focus on Genie. She is my priority
– he emphasized.
Doctors suspected cancer, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. In the end, it turned out that the source of the problems was most likely gadolinium poisoning from the contrast agent that was administered to Chuck Norris’s wife just before the MRI. A few years have passed and the actor’s wife is already in good shape. Moreover, like , Chuck Norris returns to cinema screens after a 10-year absence. The actor will appear in the film “Agent Recon”, which is scheduled to premiere next year.
Chuck Norris met his wife, 23 years his junior, on a date with another woman
Chuck Norris married twice. For the first time in 1958, with his school crush, Diana Holechek, with whom she gave birth to two sons – Mike and Erik. However, their relationship did not last and the couple divorced in 1989. He met his second wife in 1997, when he was on a date with someone else. Model Gena O’Kelley, 23 years his junior, caught the actor’s eye. A friendship developed between them, which quickly turned into love. and are the parents of twins who were born in 2001. – The Lord has given me the most wonderful woman I could ever dream of. I love you, Gena. More than words can describe – wrote Chuck Norris under one of his recently published posts on Instagram.
Source: Gazeta
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