{"id":905276,"date":"2026-05-12T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/leon-schuster-health-update-bed-bound-and-living-on-pain-meds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:16:58","slug":"leon-schuster-health-update-bed-bound-and-living-on-pain-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/leon-schuster-health-update-bed-bound-and-living-on-pain-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Schuster health update: Bed-bound and living on pain meds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beloved South African comedian Leon Schuster\u2019s health has taken another setback.<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old actor has had multiple failed back surgeries in recent years. He has also spoken out about living with depression and loneliness.<\/p>\n

The veteran TV star is known for his pranks and comedic films, including You Must Be Joking, Oh Schucks, I\u2019m Gatvol, <\/em>and Mr Bones<\/em>, among many others.<\/p>\n

LEON SCHUSTER HEALTH SETBACK<\/h2>\n

On Facebook, local entertainment page, Afrikaners, shared a health update by comedian Leon Schuster.<\/p>\n

The South African screen icon revealed that he was left confined to his bed and reliant on pain medication after multiple failed back surgeries.<\/p>\n

The veteran star injured his back in 2023 while filming a movie. Since then, he has had several more corrective surgeries, which have left him with chronic pain and \u201cliving on pain pills\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his sombre health, Schuster shared that he hoped to make a full recovery and create another movie, this time based on his Christian faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI trust in the Lord\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

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Leon Schuster has had several failed back surgeries.
Images via Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I DON\u2019T WANT TO BE ALONE ANYMORE\u2019<\/h3>\n

Last year, Leon Schuster opened up about living with depression and feeling bouts of loneliness.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the KykNET docuseries Schuster, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be alone anymore. I hope to meet a young thing in her 40s. I just hope she\u2019ll understand my health problems, and has empathy and sympathy for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian revealed his \u201cbiggest fear\u201d was \u201cgrowing old alone\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cOn Sunday evenings when the sun goes down, I get depressed. This is why I try as much as possible to have my kids visit me on a Sunday, having a braai that continues until I go to bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look for company, you don\u2019t want to be alone. If no one visits me, I sit on my stoep and think about life, which is not a good thing. One should be busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leon Schuster was last romantically linked to real estate agent Amanda Coetzee, who was 20 years his junior. The couple split in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Megan van den Heever
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Beloved South African comedian Leon Schuster\u2019s health has taken another setback. The 74-year-old actor has had multiple failed back surgeries in recent years. He has also spoken out about living with depression and loneliness. The veteran TV star is known for his pranks and comedic films, including You Must Be Joking, Oh Schucks, I\u2019m Gatvol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,149457],"tags":[7419,149456],"class_list":{"0":"post-905276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"category-schuster","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-schuster"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}