Harper told The Guardian in an interview that Jillian Michaels never reached out to him after he suffered a heart attack in 2017. The two co-hosted the weight-loss competition “The Biggest Loser” for 12 seasons.
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“I wouldn’t expect Jillian Michaels to do anything other than what she wanted to do herself,” Harper said, adding that his former colleague’s silence spoke volumes about her.
In 2017, Harper suffered a “full cardiac arrest.” “Not to be dramatic, but I was dead. I was lying on the ground dead,” he said at the time.
“We weren’t best friends, but we were partners on a TV show for a long time,” he continued.
“The Biggest Loser” ended its 18th and final season in 2020. Michaels had already left the show six years earlier. The reality show featured contestants undergoing exhausting challenges to lose weight.
Jillian Michaels did not comment after Harper’s statement.
The host recently grabbed headlines after her controversial remark about removing “inappropriate ideology” on CNN’s NewsNight With Abby Phillip.
President Donald Trump had asked the Smithsonian Institution to remove the so-called “inappropriate ideology” related to aspects of American history, such as slavery, and instead “celebrate American exceptionalism.”
Jillian Michaels said Trump “is not whitewashing slavery,” and insisted that “you cannot tie imperialism, racism, and slavery to only one race, which is basically what all [museum] exhibits do.”
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