Tom Hanks shared he had type 2 diabetes back in 2013, attributing the diagnosis to both lifestyle and family history. "I went to the doctor, and he said, 'You know those high blood sugar numbers you've been dealing with since you were 36? Well, you've graduated! You've got type 2 diabetes, young man,'" he said to David Letterman on "The Late Show." Hanks shared even more a few years after his diagnosis, reflecting on what led to his diabetes. "I'm part of the lazy American generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady," he told the Radio Times in 2016. "I was a total idiot. I thought I could avoid it by removing the buns from my cheeseburgers. Well, it takes a little bit more than that."
