Ashton Kutcher Opened Up About Being Hospitalised After Trying A Steve Jobs–Inspired Fruitarian Diet

    While shooting the 2013 biopic Jobs, Ashton tried to embody the Apple cofounder by drinking carrot juice "nonstop, all day long".

    Ben Henry
    by Ben Henry

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Ashton Kutcher just revealed that he once ended up in hospital with "crazy pancreatitis" because he tried to embody Steve Jobs and switch to a fruitarian diet.

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    Opening up about the story on the brand-new season of Hot Ones, Ashton looked back on playing the Apple cofounder in the 2013 biopic Jobs.

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    It turns out that, while studying Steve Jobs to get into character, Ashton came across a book he'd read that promoted a fruitarian diet.

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    For those who don't know, fruitarianism is "primarily a plant-based diet, omitting all meat or animal products" and "could be described as a type of raw veganism".

    Although fruitarian diets differ from person to person, most apparently rely on raw fruit making up "55% to 75%" of food intake. The diet is described as "highly restrictive" and "unbalanced", leaving people "unlikely to get all the nutrients they need".

    As well as this, Ashton was also told that Steve "drank a lot of carrot juice". So, to try and embrace the character as much as possible, he decided to try it himself, drinking it "nonstop, all day long".

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    However, a couple of weeks before the shooting for Jobs began, Ashton felt a pain in his back that only got worse as the night wore on. In fact, the pain got so bad that Ashton wound up in the hospital.

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    He said: "All of a sudden I had this pain in my back and through the night it got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and I ended up in the hospital."

    Results at the hospital showed that Ashton's pancreas was "way outta whack" (his words, not the doctor's I'm sure) and it was all down to his excessive carrot juice consumption.

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    "I was freaking out," Ashton said. "it just turns out it was the carrot juice that was causing this crazy pancreatitis."

    Moral of the story?

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    You can watch Ashton's full interview on Hot Ones here.