An almost unrecognisable John Goodman, the former star of TV comedy hit Roseanne, has shown off a dramatically slimmed-down figure on a red-carpet walk.
Goodman, 70, walked the red carpet at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco, showing off his slimmer look in a double-breasted navy blazer and khaki pants.
The actor, who was jury president at the festival, completed his outfit with a white shirt, patterned yellow tie, dark sunglasses and brown loafers. But it was his weight loss that really had people talking – a transformation that has taken 16 years and left the Righteous Gemstones actor unrecognisable to many fans.
Goodman has been open about his health battles, since revealing he weighed more than 180 kilograms at his heaviest – when he finally decided to tackle his weight after years of yo-yo dieting and heavy drinking.
“It takes a lot creative energy to sit on your ass and figure out what you’re going to eat next … I wanted to live life better,” he told People magazine in 2010.
In 2017, he revealed that missing a rehearsal for the 2007 Emmys had been the trigger he needed.
“By the time Sunday morning rolled around I was shaking; I was still drinking, but I was still shaking,” he said. “I had the clarity of thought that I needed to be hospitalised. I called my wife, which was like turning myself into the Gestapo. And she made some phone calls; we got me into a treatment centre, and I detoxed there and decided I liked the feeling. And it’s been 10 years.”
Goodman has been married to Anna Beth Hartzog since 1989. The couple have a daughter, Molly, 32.
In 2016, Goodman estimated that he weighed 181 kilograms before deciding to make a change.
“I just stopped eating all the time,” he told ABC News at the time.
“I’d have a handful of food and it’d go to my mouth. I was just eating all the time. I was just eating alcoholically. In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds (27-31 kilograms), and then reward myself with a six-pack of Bud or whatever and just go back to my old habits.
“Then this time I wanted to do it slowly, move, exercise. I’m getting to the age where I can’t afford to sit still anymore. And it gives me the energy to work, because work is very draining.”
Goodman was also driven by unhappiness with his appearance.
“I just got tired, sick and tired of looking at myself,” he said.
“You’re shaving in the mirror and you don’t want to look at yourself. It gets dangerous.”
Goodman’s personal trainer Mackie Shilstone has revealed the actor follows a “Mediterranean-style eating plan”, which incorporates fish, nuts, olive oil, vegetables and fruit. He also works out, exercises six days a week and walks up to 20,000 steps a day.
Goodman has also been a non-drinker for years, crediting that with helping with his weight loss. In 2018, he revealed that he would drink on set while filming Roseanne, which originally ran from 1988 to 1997.
“I got so lucky, because I was still getting hired for things, but the fact is, I was drinking at work,” Goodman said during an interview on US TV.
“My speech would be slurred. I thought I was fooling people. My cheeks would turn bright red when I was liquored up. I just looked like a stop sign.”
The first signs his dramatic health plan was working was when Goodman debuted a dramatic 45-kilogram weight loss on the red carpet for Trumbo in late 2015. Since then, he is believed to have lost at least that much again.
