Ozempic isn’t any laughing matter for the comic. Handler revealed her “anti-aging physician” prescribed the remedy with out her realizing what the drug was.
“I did not even know I used to be on it,” she mentioned in the course of the Jan. 25, 2023 episode of Name Her Daddy. “She mentioned, ‘If you happen to ever wish to drop 5 kilos, that is good.'”
However whereas she tried the drug, Handler famous that she did not like the way it made her really feel.
“I got here again from a trip and I injected myself with it,” she recalled. “I went to lunch with a girlfriend a couple of days later, and he or she was like, ‘I am not likely consuming something. I am so nauseous, I am on Ozempic.’ And I used to be like, ‘I am sort of nauseous too.’ However I had simply come again from Spain and was jet-lagged.”
In the end, Handler stopped utilizing the drug as a result of it wasn’t medically needed for her, including that she gave away the remaining doses to associates.
“I’ve injected about 4 or 5 of my associates with Ozempic, as a result of I spotted I did not wish to use it as a result of it was foolish,” she mentioned. “It is for heavy folks. I’ve folks coming over to my home, and I am like, ‘OK, I can see you at 1, I can see you at 2.'”