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Kevin Sorbo: 'My knees are too banged up for Dancing With the Stars'

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Former TV Hercules Kevin Sorbo has turned down the chance to go Dancing With The Stars multiple times because he fears his shattered legs wouldn't carry him through the competition. The actor admits he has been invited to join the big TV dance five times, but has had to turn down the chance to show off his waltz and tango. He explains, "I've said no every single time... I've had three knee surgeries, I've got a fourth one on the way, so those are good excuses." But he still thinks the show is a good luck charm for him: "Every time I've said no, I've booked a movie right away afterwards... I'd rather do the movie, rather than embarrass myself."

Actor Kevin Sorbo's Recovery from Stroke

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Actor Kevin Sorbo's Recovery from Stroke

By Peter Pressman, M.D., About.com Guide

Updated March 21, 2013

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Actor Kevin Sorbo once felt as invincible as the man he portrayed on television.
Hercules was once the number one television show worldwide. Sorbo had the title role. Always athletic, he often worked fourteen-hour days and then put in two hours at the gym.
In 1997, Sorbo began to feel numbness and cold sensations in his left arm. He shrugged the sensation off for months. A doctor initially thought that it was likely an ulnar neuropathy, perhaps gained in one of Sorbo's many fight scenes.
Sorbo felt a growing pain in his left shoulder. An examination by another doctor uncovered a mass there. He was scheduled for a biopsy. Before this could occur, though, a chiropractor did a neck manipulation and Sorbo's life changed.
The lump that had been found in Sorbo's shoulder was an aneurysm, a dilated blood vessel prone to form clots. These clots had been traveling down Sorbo's arm, resulting in numbness, tingling and pain. After the neck manipulation, clots traveled up into Sorbo's brain as well.
At the age of 38, Sorbo had several strokes. Not only has he since recovered, but he has gone on to be a strong advocate for awareness about this common cause of disability and death.
Sorbo was awarded for his efforts at the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Academy of Neurology, where he was kind enough to agree to an interview regarding his ordeal and his recently published memoir, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life.
AN: Many people have strokes. Not everybody is motivated to speak about it or serve as an advocate as you have been. What is it that drove you to take those additional steps?
KS: Two words: my wife. She started bugging me years ago and said, "you have a story to tell. You played Hercules, for heaven's sakes, and you suffered strokes. You're the last guy people would think that could happen to."
Initially I didn't want to do it. I didn't want people to know that weakness that was there. It was tough. It was tough on the ego, it was tough on self-esteem, it was tough on everything.
AN: As a doctor I have to say that your recovery is remarkable. What problems did you have initially?
There were four strokes initially. One dissolved before I got to the hospital. That was speech. I looked at my at-the-time fiance. She just stared at me; I stared at her. I could barely stand up--I was like a drunk. I was hanging on to her, and she dragged me into Cedars-Sinai to the emergency room. Luckily, she'd been a volunteer for two years, so she had some pull. My doctor was very good too; he got things rolling. I had two (strokes) into my balance center and one into my vision. I still have a ten percent loss of vision in both eyes.
AN: As an actor, to have your speech taken right away must have been terrifying.
KS: I thought I was going to die that day. There was no doubt in my mind. Universal Studios kept it very quiet. The only thing they let out was that I had an aneurysm.
AN: How did they take care of the aneurysm itself?
KS: The angio. They went through and put in a platinum coil. And at that time in 1997 that was kind of a newer procedure.
AN: Then, as part of the recovery process, you had physical therapy?
KS: Four months of learning to walk again. First it was just sitting in a chair because I couldn't sit up very well. I would throw a ball up and try to catch it. It took me a long time. I would catch like one a day, but would be throwing a hundred up in the air.
It was so frustrating. I would sit and realize I would never be the same person. That was the hardest thing. Because I felt like somebody had died. It was me, and I had to find a new person.
Trust me, I had a lot of talks with God. There was a lot of blame at everybody else, which we're so typically doing, but as my dad always told me years ago: "Look in the mirror. That's where your problem is."
AN: And you've certainly gone on to have many accomplishments since.
KS: Well, I finished the last seasons of Hercules, but it was a struggle. I did five years of Andromeda after that, and have done about forty movies.
AN: So as a model of there being life after stroke...
KS: That's why the (book) title is called "True Strength." Hercules... that was phony strength, you know, stunt guys making me look good. I'm a very strong-willed person. I'm a thirteen year overnight success in Hollywood. I'm used to the frustration.
I used to caddy at a country club, and I used to ask all these guys, "how did you become so wealthy?" Every single one of them had the same story: "I failed, and I didn't let it stop me. And I failed again, and I didn't let it stop me." They taught me that failure is a good thing, you learn from failures. Just what my dad taught me, too. Hard work-- it's all about hard work.
The dizzy spells were horrendous all the time. I had vertigo and was falling backwards 24 hours a day for about a year and a half.
AN: And yet here you are. You walked over here without a hint of a problem.
KS: If I get really tired, working too hard, not getting sleep, I get that sensation. Like I told my wife, I call it the "stroke feeling." I say "I'm getting that stroke feeling again," and I just need to lay down.
AN: You've done a lot of advocacy, including mentioning of the FAST response for stroke awareness. Is that a point of emphasis for you?
KS: It really comes down to listening to your body. Don't become a hypochondriac, but you have to listen to your body. I didn't listen to my body. I had three months of warnings in my arm. That aneurysm, which I didn't know existed, was throwing off clots slowly. These fingers became cold, numb. I couldn't figure out what was going on with it... My shoulder was killing me, just killing me.
AN: Looking back now, you've learned a lot and done a lot of reading about stroke. What would you have liked to have known at the time?
KS: After I had had the strokes? I think the most important thing is, you should tell your patients to have patience. That they have to find their own perspective, that they have to find their own positive attitude about getting better as well. And you as doctors shouldn't set limitations on your patients, because I had limitations put on me. They said after three to six months, whatever you're feeling, you have to live with the rest of your life. And after six months, I was still doing pretty crappy. And I just said, "you know what, the hell with this. There's no way I'm going to let this thing beat me." I was already pushing myself anyway. I'm the type of guy who if the doctor says only walk a block I'll walk five blocks if I can. I'll push myself.
When I went to a place like this, with a thousand people, the noise was too much for me. I didn't drive for two years, because cars going by... my brain, it overloaded, and I would get dizzy, I would get nauseous, I suffered migraines. All these things happened to me. But I started putting myself into situations like that. I would tell my wife, "look, if I don't... I'm not going to get better. It's no pain, no gain." I had to push myself to get better, and that's what I did.
AN: All right. Mr. Sorbo, thank you very much.
KS: Thank you.
Mr. Sorbo's book True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life is now available. For more information, visit his website: True Strength: By Kevin Sorbo.

Kevin Sorbo turned down 'Dancing' five times

Former 'Hercules' star says knees are too banged up for the rigors of the show

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Former "Hercules" star Kevin Sorbo has turned down the chance to go "Dancing With the Stars" multiple times because he fears his shattered legs wouldn't carry him through the competition. The actor admits he has been invited to join the show five times but has had to turn down the chance to show off his waltz and tango.

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He explains, "I've said no every single time ... I've had three knee surgeries. I've got a fourth one on the way, so those are good excuses." But he still thinks the show is a good luck charm for him: "Every time I've said no, I've booked a movie right away afterwards ... I'd rather do the movie than embarrass myself."

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Net Worth: $6 Million

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• 54years old
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• Mound, Minnesota, U.S.
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• American

 

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Kevin Sorbo net worth: Kevin David Sorbo, an American actor, is best known for his role in “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”. He has a net worth of $6 Million. He was born in Mound, Minnesota, on September 24th 1958. He started his career as a model and did modelling in various print ads and appeared in over 150 commercials. Kevin’s first television appearance was through the television series “Murder, She Wrote”.
Kevin Sorbo, nicknamed as ‘Sorbs’, has spent about 3 years travelling and modelling around the world. During high school, he was excellent in baseball, basketball and football and during college in addition to these sports, he played hockey too. For his height and masculine figure, he was selected for the series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”, which went on to become very popular, and with this, Kevin’s popularity soared too. Later, he acted as “Captain Dylan Hunt” the lead role in Gene Roddenberry’s, “Andromeda”. During 2000-2005 it was the number one television series.
Kevin’s debut film was “Kull, the Conqueror” in 1997, which was followed by many lead roles and guest appearances in films and television series. His wealth comes from his acting skills, and of course the many modelling assignments. He has also learned film making and has written some of the episodes for Hercules as well.
Since 1997, he is the spokesperson of “A World Fit for Kids”. It is a non-profit organization providing mentoring program to teens so that they don’t get into gang, dropout or drug. Sorbo was born to parents Ardis and Lynn Sorbo. Sorbo is married to the actress Sam Jenkins from whom he has three children – Braedon Cooper, Octavia Flynn and Shane Haaken.

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A Candid Talk with Kevin Sorbo: From Hercules to How Nearly Dying Saved His Life

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‘Hercules’ star Kevin Sorbo shows spiritual side

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Hey, almost forgot for those who know of and/or watch The View! I co hosted the whole hour with the ladies today! Friday, March 8. Make sure you watch!

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Video on Today: For seven years, Kevin Sorbo starred “Hercules” on TV, and while in that role, he suffered three strokes that he says saved his life. Now Kevin, along with 100 others (including TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford), has contributed a personal story to the new book “Billy Graham and Me.”

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 Kevin Sorbo played the role of the divine character herbing lose. while he was portraying one of the strongest men ever, Kevin suffered three debilitating strokes that he says actually saved his life.

Now Kevin along with 100 other interesting people and one of them not so interesting, myself, and every living u.s. president has had a personal story revealing a spiritual side in a brand new book called " Billy Graham and me." it's a beautiful book. so happy to have you here today.

Glad to be here.

It's all about our different memories of one of the most extraordinary human beings god ever made, right?

You know him. i never met him personally, but i went through a couple of his revivals, and the first time i was 13 years old, and a day -- a night that stuck with me forever. St. Paul at the state fair park. it was a hot august night. i remember everything about it. i remember going up and meeting one of his volunteers and speaking for almost an hour with this person.

Was it a big transformation?

I've always been a christian. I've never been a reborn christian. it was one of those moments that stuck with me forever. he was just an amazing man.

When she selected you for this book because it is by the chicken soup for the soul people.

20th anniversary, by the way.

They've never done this. never chosen an individual to honor this way.

Did you each do interviews about the book? is that what happened?

Then they said please write your story. i think i talked about it on some other interview, and they saw it. i was very honored. they called me up. as you have met him, i would have liked to have met the man.

An extraordinary group of people. they run the gambit of all of humanity. that's the story of billy's life. he never met anybody he didn't believe was loveable in god's eyes.

Very true.

You look great for a guy who has had three strokes.

Well, you know, it happened back -- exactly. thank you. i didn't get my drink, though. anyway, you know what, it was between season five, six on "Hercules." i was coming back to do a movie, and i had a shoulder problem. they found a lump there. it ended up being an aneurism and it opened up. three clots went into my brain. it took three months to learn to walk again. i did write a book called "True Strength." you can check it out at truestrengthbook.com. I've been on the tour speaking. hospitals, book fairs, everywhere. people coming up to me saying not just stroke survivors, but heart attack, cancer, saying this book has inspired them to push past what doctors are saying the recovery should or could do.

Did you regain your speech as well?

That one dissolved. that was the speech one, and that resolved on the way to the hospital at Cedar Sinai.

You're a walking miracle.

Something else with this one's daughter, Cassidy. a little movie is coming out.

"God is Not Dead." it will be out in theaters this September, October. please check it out.

Baton Rouge, i know.

These stories all meet together at the end.

Life is good for Hercules.

I've got to go plug for Able's field.

Nice of you to make time in your busy schedule. i got to get that in there because, you know --

All of this is on our website.

Of course, it is.

Come back in September when the movie is coming out. you and Cassidy at the same time.

Next time make sure i have my cocktail in front of me.

Sorry. we have not --

Jerry!

We should have wine and some bread in honor of Billy Graham.

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Kevin Sorbo discusses why he is drawn to acting in westerns like his new TV movie, "Shadow On the Mesa," which premieres March 23 at 8/7c on the Hallmark Movie Channel.

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Kevin Sorbo discusses why he is drawn to acting in westerns like his new TV movie, "Shadow On the Mesa," which premieres March 23 at 8/7c on the Hallmark Movie Channel. Plus, the actor recently sat in with the ladies of "The View" for the entire hour, so... more

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Hercules! Actor, author and family man, Kevin Sorbo stops by to chat with Marie Osmond about his upcoming western movie, “Shadow on the Mesa premiering on the Hallmark Movie Channel.
Plus , wait til you see what he's making in the kitchen! The man can COOK! :) WEDNESDAY on an ALL NEW Marie Show on Hallmark Channel 10a/ 9C

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