Tiffany Haddish is the latest celebrity to reveal that she tested positive for COVID-19.
In a new video posted to her YouTube page this week, featuring an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci — the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the public faces of the pandemic in America — the 40-year-old actress detailed her recent experience with the coronavirus.
Around the 23:15 mark, Haddish told Dr. Fauci that she was working on a movie when she learned that someone on the set had contracted the coronavirus.
“I wasn’t in direct contact with them, but they sent all of us home and we stopped the movie,” she recalled. “Then they suggested that I go get tested. I went and got tested, and I got the results back like two days later. They said I didn’t have the coronavirus.”
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LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 21: Actress/comedian Tiffany Haddish arrives at Comedy Central’s Emmy Awards party at the STK restaurant September 21, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 20: Tiffany Haddish attends the 2017 NBCUniversal Summer Press Day on March 20, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by JB Lacroix/WireImage)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 27:Comedian Tiffany Haddish attends Comedy Central’s ‘The High Court’ Premiere Party at HYDE Sunset: Kitchen + Cocktails on February 27, 2017 in West Hollywood, California.(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Comedy Central)
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LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 25:Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith speak onstage at 2017 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images )
NEW ORLEANS, LA – JULY 01:(L-R) Will Packer, Malcolm D. Lee, Kofi Siriboe, Larenz Tate, Tiffany Haddish, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah pose in the press room at the 2017 ESSENCE Festival presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 1, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for 2017 ESSENCE Festival )
NEW ORLEANS, LA – JUNE 30:(L-R) Malcolm D. Lee, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, Larenz Tate, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kofi Siriboe, and Will Packer at ‘Girls Trip’ New Orleans screening at Theatres at Canal Place on June 30, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 01:Honoree Tiffany Haddish (L) and Presenter Lil Rel Howery speak onstage during the 2018 Essence Black Women In Hollywood Oscars Luncheon at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on March 1, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.(Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images for Essence)
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 28:Tiffany Haddish attends Alfre Woodard and Morgan Stanley present the 9th Annual Oscar’s Sistahs Soiree on February 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.(Photo by Gabriel Olsen/WireImage,)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – MARCH 04:Actors Tiffany Haddish (L) and Maya Rudolph speak onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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AUSTIN, TX – MARCH 12:Tiffany Haddish attends the ‘The Last O.G’ Premiere 2018 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Paramount Theatre on March 12, 2018 in Austin, Texas.(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW)
BURBANK, CA – APRIL 29:Tiffany Haddish attends the For Your Consideration Red Carpet Event for TBS’ Hipsters and O.G.’s at Steven J. Ross Theatre on the Warner Bros. Lot on April 29, 2018 in Burbank, California. 374251(Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for TBS)
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“Then, somebody else I know that was around like a week before, they contracted the coronavirus, and so I went and got tested again. Mind you, these tests are expensive as all outdoors — it was like $550. Which really made me upset because I was trying to buy some shoes,” she continued. “Anyways, I paid for the tests. Get the tests the second time. I’m not feeling any symptoms or anything, and it comes back like two days later, and they said I did have the coronavirus.”
Haddish said she “didn’t feel anything,” no symptoms at the time, but quarantined herself as a precaution.
“I stayed away from everybody, just stayed in my house, me and my dogs, and I practiced learning how to do the splits. And now I can do the splits,” she joked. “Then I went and tested again, didn’t have the virus, and then I got tested for antibodies, they said I had antibodies. That was like three months ago… and I’ve been tested 12 times now since, because I’ve been working and everything.”
“Then I get tested again, no virus, and then I had them test me for antibodies again, and then they said I don’t have any antibodies,” she added. “So I think I’m superhuman.”
Earlier in the interview, Dr. Fauci also cleared up some of the misconceptions many people have about the coronavirus and how it’s transmitted.
“It’s a respiratory-borne virus. So it’s transmitted from one person to another by very microscopic respiratory secretions,” he explained. “And that could be, this is important, that I think people don’t understand, that certainly could be from coughing or sneezing, but it could even be from talking.”
“The way you prevent that is by what we keep talking about: a mask and physical distancing,” he continued. “Sit a certain distance away and avoid crowds.”
Dr. Fauci added that the best way to boost your immune system is to “just lead a healthy life.”
“Get a good sleep, exercise,” he advised. “Those are the things that are so much better than a bunch of herbs that really have never really been shown to do that.”
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