“I tried Ozempic, and it won’t be surprising to you when you look at me now, that it didn’t really work,” Corden shared during the Sept. 19 episode of his podcast, “This Life of Mine.”
“I tried it for a bit and then what I realized was I was like, ‘Oh no, nothing about my eating has anything to do with being hungry,'” he continued.
Ozempic, a brand name for semaglutide, is an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes that works by impacting satiety.
However, after taking the drug, the former “Late Late Show” host realized his issues with food went much deeper than just hunger.
“All this does is make you feel not hungry,” he explained. “But I am very rarely eating [just because of hunger].”
Corden joked that he could — and has — easily polished off “a king-size” Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar while sitting at the “car wash,” which had nothing to do with his hunger levels.
“None of that was like, ‘Oh, I’m so hungry,'” he said. “It is not that, it’s something else.”
Osman, a bestselling author, has been very open about his food issues and encouraged listeners to take food addiction as seriously as they would other addictions.
Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.