JARED LETO - LETO WORRIED DOCTORS WITH SUDDEN WEIGHT GAIN

Actor JARED LETO piled on so much weight to play JOHN LENNON's killer MARK DAVID CHAPMAN in a new film doctors were seriously worried about his cholesterol. The PANIC ROOM star guzzled two pints of microwaved Häagen-Dazs ice-cream daily to play the chubby assassin in CHAPTER 27, and gained a speedy 65 pounds (29.5 kilograms) in the process. As a result, Leto suffered from gout and his cholesterol levels shot up. He says, "My cholesterol was so high they (doctors) wanted to put me on Lipitor (prescription cholesterol medication). "I took a wheelchair to set every morning because I couldn't walk more than a few feet without excruciating pain."

08/01/2007 02:06