Ozempic is a serious topic for the comedian. Handler revealed that her “anti-aging doctor” prescribed the medication without her knowledge of what it was.
“I didn’t even know I was on it,” she stated during the Jan. 25, 2023 episode of Call Her Daddy. “She said, ‘If you ever want to drop five pounds, this is good.’
However, while she tried the drug, Handler mentioned that she didn’t appreciate how it made her feel.
“I returned from a vacation and injected myself with it,” she remembered. “I went to lunch with a friend a few days later, and she said, ‘I’m not really eating anything. I’m so nauseous, I’m on Ozempic.’ And I thought, ‘I’m kind of nauseous too.’ But I had just come back from Spain and was jet-lagged.”
In the end, Handler stopped using the drug because it wasn’t medically necessary for her and added that she gave away the remaining doses to friends.
“I’ve injected about four or five of my friends with Ozempic, because I realized I didn’t want to use it because it was silly,” she said. “It’s for heavy people. I have friends coming over to my house, and I’m like, ‘OK, I can see you at 1, I can see you at 2.’
