For a time frame, Tyler James Williams was getting ready to demise.

The Abbott Elementary star opened up about his harrowing battle with Crohn’s illness, a continual inflammatory bowel dysfunction he did not know he had till 2017. In an interview with Males’s Well being, Williams recalled how he struggled with gaining muscle previous to the analysis as a result of excruciating abdomen ache that made it tough to maintain meals down.

“I used to be actually pushing my physique to the restrict,” shared Williams, who was additionally busy juggling roles on Felony Minds and Detroit on the time. “By the point December hit, it simply crashed. Every part shut down.”

When Williams sought therapy from a gastroenterologist, an X-ray confirmed that his bowels have been severely infected and clogged with scar tissue from a Crohn’s illness flare-up. The injury compelled Williams to endure emergency surgical procedure to take away six inches of decrease gut.

Nonetheless, as Williams famous, his intestines have been too weak to heal and in the end perforated amid his restoration, leading to him going septic and being rushed again into surgical procedure. “The final thought I had was, ‘Holy s–t, this could possibly be it,'” he remembered saying to himself. “‘If that is it, I am not completely satisfied. I labored quite a bit. I did loads of issues. I did not get pleasure from any of this. This cannot be it.'”