Gilbert Gottfried Illness: What Disease Was Gilbert Gottfried Suffering From?

Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American actor and stand-up comedian.

Gilbert Gottfried’s persona as a comedian featured an exaggerated shrill voice and emphasis on crude humor.

Gilbert Gottfried’s numerous roles in film and television included voicing the parrot Iago in Disney’s Aladdin animated films and series, Digit LeBoid on PBS Kids’s long-running Cyberchase, and Kraang Subprime in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Gilbert Gottfried was the voice of the Aflac Duck until 2011 and he also appeared in the critically panned but commercially successful Problem Child in 1990.

From 2014 until his death in 2022, Gilbert Gottfried hosted a podcast, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, which featured discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians, musicians, and comedy writers.

Gilbert, a documentary film on Gottfried’s life and career, was released in 2017.

What Disease Was Gilbert Gottfried Suffering From?

Gilbert Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia (a cardiomyopathy characterized by localized or widespread fibro-fatty infiltration of the right ventricular myocardium), complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy (an inherited muscular dystrophy that affects the muscles and other body systems), on April 12, 2022, at the age of 67.