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“My brain and I were in different zip codes,” said Winkler. “Meanwhile, the other actors would be waiting, staring at me: it was humiliating and shameful.”
Henry Winkler is opening up about his struggles with dyslexia, particularly before he was diagnosed and on the set of Happy Days, where he famously starred as Aurthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli.
In his upcoming memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond, the actor revealed that it wasn’t until he was 31 that he was diagnosed, per People.
“Even in the midst of Happy Days, at the height of my fame and success, I felt embarrassed, inadequate,” wrote Winkler, 77.
“Every Monday at ten o’clock, we would have a table reading of that week’s script, and at every reading I would lose my place, or stumble,” he continued.
“I would leave a word out, a line out. I was constantly failing to give the right cue line, which would then screw up the joke for the person doing the scene with me. Or I would be staring at a word, like “invincible,” and have no idea on earth how to pronounce it or even sound it out,” he shared.
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“My brain and I were in different zip codes,” said Winkler. “Meanwhile, the other actors would be waiting, staring at me: it was humiliating and shameful. Everybody in the cast was warm and supportive, but I constantly felt I was letting them down.”
“I had to ask for my scripts really early, so I could read them over and over again- which put extra pressure on the writers, who were already under the gun every week, having to get twenty-four scripts ready in rapid succession. All this at the height of my fame and success, as I was playing the coolest guy in the world,” added the actor.
He added that it wasn’t until his stepson was diagnosed with the learning disorder that he thought he might have the same. Once the actor “found out that I had something with a name, I was so fucking angry.”
“All the misery I’d gone through had been for nothing,” said Winkler. “All the yelling, all the humiliation, all the screaming arguments in my house as I was growing up – for nothing… It was genetic! It wasn’t a way I decided to be! And then I went from feeling this massive anger to fighting through it.”
Since his diagnosis, Winkler has written two kids books, Here’s Hank and Hank Zipzer, the World’s Greatest Underachiever for kids struggling with dyslexia.
Winkler’s memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond, will be available on October 31st.
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James Christian “Jimmy” Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Prior to that, Kimmel was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central’s The Man Show and Win Ben Stein’s Money. Kimmel is also a television producer, with shows including Crank Yankers and The Andy Milonakis Show to his credit.nKimmel was born in the Mill Basin neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Joan (nu00e9e Iacono), a homemaker, and James Kimmel, an IBM executive. He was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy. Kimmel is of German and Irish descent on his fatheru2019s side and Italian descent on his motheru2019s side. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. He graduated from Ed W. Clark High School and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before attending Arizona State University for two years without completing a degree. Kimmel and his former wife, Gina, married in June 1988. They have a son, Kevin (born 1993), and a daughter, Katie (born 1991). Katie Kimmel is an art student in northern California. The marriage ended in”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”jimmy-kimmel”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”89da910c-f35d-48e3-f23b-afb370a93fa9″},”slug”:”jimmy-kimmel”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2014-09-19T18:17:30.000000Z”},”toofab:person:6507a4fe-3ca6-448b-b4ce-baf29d2cfcb3″:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”6507a4fe-3ca6-448b-b4ce-baf29d2cfcb3″,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”759cafa2e5b6b0b54b7dcc85af1181ea”,”created_at”:”1688142852241754″,”updated_at”:”1688142856497154″,”title”:”Olivia Rodrigo”,”image_ref”:”toofab:image-asset:image_jpg_20230630_59035c62f70b4eebb7afbb614204ed02″,”is_celebrity”:false,”slug”:”olivia-rodrigo”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2023-06-30T16:34:12.241754Z”},”toofab:person:59f4d458-a0ab-58a9-b434-fca300780de9″:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”59f4d458-a0ab-58a9-b434-fca300780de9″,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”78d2680488b18c515032099e8fca6177″,”created_at”:”1282597518000000″,”title”:”Kristin Chenoweth”,”bio”:”
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Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian television and film actor best known for his roles in the comedy and romantic films National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Waiting…, Just Friends, Definitely Maybe and The Proposal, as well as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.nReynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to James (a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman who later became a food wholesaler) and Tammy Reynolds (a retail salesperson). He is of Irish ancestry and was raised Roman Catholic. The youngest of four brothers, He graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School, located in Vancouver, in 1994. He then attended Kwantlen College, in Vancouver, until dropping out.nReynolds held several jobs at places such as yacht clubs, nightclubs, and grocery stores, and created an improv comedy group in Vancouver called, “Yellow Snow,” when he was a child.nReynolds’s career began in 1990 when he starred as Billy in the Canadian-produced teen soap Hillside, distributed in the United States by Nickelodeon as Fifteen. As an adult, Reynolds starred in the National Lampoon movie Van Wilder and the American television series Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, playing”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”ryan-reynolds”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”2a52fb0d-e7f3-4b09-ecc4-7a816e5a9d42″},”slug”:”ryan-reynolds”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2014-10-17T04:59:18.000000Z”,”hashtags”:[“RyanRodneyReynolds”]},”toofab:person:1548f929-21fd-5c2a-8259-a4aef10de684″:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”1548f929-21fd-5c2a-8259-a4aef10de684″,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”129207506be8eb1f818af528ffae1dc1″,”created_at”:”1274823519000000″,”title”:”Daniel Radcliffe”,”bio”:”
Dan Radcliffe was born in July 23rd, 1989 in London, England and is an actor.
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