“The Bachelor” star Joey Graziadei is assuring fans that he’s healthy amid concern for his yellow-colored eyes.
“Hi everyone, I hope you are having an exquisite day,” Graziadei, 28, said in an Instagram video on Thursday. “I would like to leap on here really quick and discuss something that I’m seeing plenty of comments about, which is Joey’s yellow eyes.”
Fans on social media quickly wondered concerning the hunky tennis pro’s health upon the “Bachelor” Season 28 premiere in January, wondering if the whites of his eyes seemed to be yellow or if was just their discolored TVs.
“So to present some context on that, I actually have to go all the best way back to once I was in highschool. I used to be sick for about every week and a half and my mom thought it might be idea to go to the doctor,” Graziadei continued, adding that he had blood work that exposed he had a high bilirubin count.
“That signifies that there might be something that was flawed with my liver,” the Pennsylvania native added. “So we went and I got a liver ultrasound, I went to other doctors, they discovered that there was nothing that was necessarily flawed like hepatitis but they diagnosed me with something called Gilbert syndrome.”
Gilbert syndrome is an inherited condition that affects the liver’s ability to interrupt down red blood cells. It could actually cause the skin and the whites of the eyes to have a yellow tinge attributable to the buildup of bilirubin.
Graziadei continued, “At the tip of the day, I’m told that I’m healthy. It’s something that does affect the whites of my eyes. It makes it have those jaundice levels which is why they appear slightly bit more yellow. It’s something I would like to listen to more going into this 12 months.”
The hopeless romantic added that his yellowing eyes are “worse when I actually have stress or lack of sleep, which happens on a TV show.”
“I do appreciate everyone looking for me and wondering if I’m OK,” he conculded. “But to my knowledge, I’m as OK as I could be and I’ll proceed to take a look at it. So thanks very much.”
Graziadei has also gone viral for more lighthearted reasons. Kathie Lee Gifford hilariously responded Wednesday to the heartthrob admitting that he had “no idea” who she is.
He also suffered a now-infamous mixup between convicted felon Gypsy Rose Blanchard and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“The Bachelor” airs Mondays at 8 pm. EST on ABC.