Amy Schumer said she was “vomiting from the pain” before her 2021 endometriosis diagnosis
The comic gave a surprise speech at the 13th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America’s Blossom Ball in New York City, where she thanked Dr. Tamer Seckin for lifting “the pain” from her body
Schumer said her appendix was “choked” by endometriosis, which gave her “chocolate cysts” in her ovaries. She said it was a “miracle” she could carry her son Gene
Amy Schumer said she was “on the floor in pain” and “vomiting” because of endometriosis before her diagnosis, explaining that her body was essentially “choked” by the effects of the disease.
The Kinda Pregnant actress, 43, had a hysterectomy and an appendectomy to help treat the disease in September 2021. Four years later, Schumer took the stage on Thursday, May 15, for a surprise speech at the 13th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America’s Blossom Ball at The Pierre in New York City.
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Amy Schumer at the Endometriosis Foundation of America’s 13th Annual Blossom Ball in New York City
In her speech at the event, Schumer told the crowd she was living in “pain that nobody can see” for “most days of the month” before receiving her official diagnosis of endometriosis.
The condition “is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus,” according to the World Health Organization, which estimates that approximately 190 million women worldwide have the disease.
It wasn’t until the 2019 birth of her son, Gene David Fischer, whom she shares with husband Chris Fischer, that Schumer said her doctor diagnosed her with endometriosis and adenomyosis — when tissue grows into the uterine wall — and sent her to see Dr. Tamer Seckin, founder of the advocacy group EndoFound.
Schumer said it was “a unique experience to have the proof for the first time. To sit down in his office, and have him go through and show me the 33 [attachments] that I had from endo. That my appendix was being choked by endometriosis.
“That I had chocolate cysts [which are full of old blood] in my ovaries,” Schumer continued. “And that it was a miracle that I was able to carry a child.”
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Amy Schumer
The conversation, she said, left her “just weeping and weeping and weeping.”
“Sitting there, feeling seen, he lifted the pain out of my body. I am pain-free now for about five or six years,” Schumer said.
She then used her signature stand-up comedy to thank Dr. Seckin for deciding to “not focus in the medical field on what so many do, which is d—k pills, right?”
She joked, “We’ll get to the women next lifetime.”
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Schumer previously opened up about how her diagnosis for endometriosis changed her life. While appearing on the Paramount+ docuseries The Checkup with Dr. David Agus in 2022, Schumer said getting treatment for the disease even changed how she parented her young son.
“I felt like a new person. It was incredible,” she said at the time. “I feel like someone lifted this veil that had been over me and I just felt like a different person and like a new mom.”
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