Celebrity Health

Soccer legend Pele will NOT attend Friday's Olympic Opening Ceremony in Brazil due to health issues.

Comedian and actor Lavell Crawford's not quite half the man he used to be, but he's getting there after dropping a buck 20 -- and his loss is a huge gain for someone else.

We got Crawford at LAX and it was immediately obvious the guy's looking much slimmer than he was in his days as extra husky bodyguard Huell on "Breaking Bad."

Lavell says his wife doesn't want him getting too skinny though, and she's got a magic number in mind. As he put it ... "She married me as a bear. You don't wanna date no bunny rabbit."

Lavell had some medical assistance to lose the weight, and he explained what else he's doing to drop the lbs. And that's all on top of his jiu-jitsu training!

Dina Lohan's family is afraid she might have cancer ... as doctors remained baffled about the cause of her stomach pain after more than a month in the hospital.

According to our Lohan fam sources, Lindsay's mama has undergone a battery of tests -- at 2 different hospitals -- since she was admitted for treatment last month. We're told she had a biopsy on a nodule found in her throat. She's currently waiting for the results.

Doctors gave her a round of antibiotics ... believing her pain was caused by a dental procedure gone wrong, but that only worked for a short time before the pain returned.

Tennis great Chris Evert says menopause is at least partly to blame for the demise of her marriage to Olympian Andy Mill ... insinuating the hormonal change had a major impact on the relationship.

61-year-old Evert opened up about the situation on Lance Armstrong's "The Forward Podcast" -- when the two were talking about the positive relationships they have with their exes ... including Mill.

FYI, Evert and Mill had 3 kids together before they divorced in 2006. Two years later, she married Andy's friend, Greg Norman (the golfer). They broke up 15 months after that.

"[Andy and I] had a rough couple of years," Evert said ... "because I married Greg Norman who was Andy’s friend, and that was … I don’t know, I was going through menopausal stuff."

Evert didn't expand on exactly how menopause affected the relationship -- but said the condition ("what women go through at 50ish") doesn't get talked about enough.

According to the WebMD, menopause can cause major psychological symptoms in women -- including anxiety, irritability, mood changes, feelings of sadness and aggressiveness.

Stedman Bailey -- the ex-Rams WR who was shot in the head twice last year -- says he's NOT giving up his NFL dreams .... just because he's taken a job as a college assistant coach.

25-year-old Bailey was waived by the Rams last month because he hasn't been medically cleared to play football yet -- and was hired as a student assistant coach at West Virginia University.

Many saw the move as a sign that Bailey was turning the page on his pro football career -- but his agent, Tony Fleming, tells TMZ Sports that just ain't the case.

"Stedman’s definitely not giving up on playing football. He just wasn’t cleared to play. He still wanted to be productive, so WVU was a good opportunity for him."

Fleming says doctors will reevaluate Bailey right after the 2016 season -- and he will continue training in the hopes he'll get an opportunity with a team for 2017.

Shannen Doherty revealed a telltale sign her fight with breast cancer won't be ending anytime soon.

Doherty got her head shaved and posted photos of the heart-wrenching process. Her mother and friend were with her through the ordeal.

45-year-old Shannen was diagnosed last year. She sued her former business managers, blaming them for the severity of her cancer. She claims they screwed up her insurance, which delayed her diagnosis and treatment.

Prince Harry showed the world ... staying sexually safe and responsible is super easy.

Harry took an HIV/AIDS test in front of the cameras, to show the world -- and especially the thousands of people in the UK who have the virus but don't know it -- it's as easy as sitting down and getting results just minutes later.

The test is nothing more than a pin prick. In Harry's case ... he's negative.

Harry's making HIV/AIDS part of his royal agenda ... something his mom did as well.

Alice Cooper broke the news on his bandmate Joe Perry's condition ... and it's serious enough that the group's immediate future is uncertain.

The Hollywood Vampires frontman looked visibly shaken Monday while leaving his NYC hotel. As we previously reported Perry suffered what appeared to be a cardiac arrest during the band's Sunday night show in Coney Island.

Perry is currently hospitalized and someone tweeted from his account that the guitar great was in stable condition.

Lil Wayne's epilepsy continues to dog him ... we've learned he was hospitalized last week after suffering a severe seizure.

Wayne has been unable to get his recent seizures under control. You'll recall just last month his plane made 2 emergency landings after he had a series of seizures on the aircraft.

The seizure last week was bad enough that he had to cancel his performance at TAO nightclub in Vegas for a pre-UFC 200 party. Wayne was just moments away from taking the stage when the seizure hit.

We're told Wayne has chalked it up to a medication issue ... that doctors were having trouble figuring out the right balance of Rx.

After a stint in the ICU, Wayne was released and is now resting in Miami.

Joe Perry was just rushed to the hospital after collapsing backstage during a concert in NYC ... TMZ has learned.

NYPD sources tell us the Aerosmith guitarist was playing with Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper in their band, Hollywood Vampires, Sunday at the Coney Island Boardwalk when he allegedly went into cardiac arrest.

One person in the audience caught video of what appeared to be Perry staggering behind a speaker mid performance.

The 65-year-old guitarist was taken to a nearby hospital and is in stable condition.

Story developing ...

2x U.S. Olympic star Jamie Nieto is home from the hospital and walking with some assistance less than 3 months after a NEAR-DEATH injury ... TMZ Sports has learned.

As we previously reported, Nieto landed on his head during a training session on April 23rd ... and suffered MAJOR DAMAGE to his back. He lost feeling in his arms and legs ... and was unable to move.

But only 2 1/2 months after the injury, Nieto's manager, Paul Doyle, says his client has miraculously recovered ... so much that he's been sent home from the hospital ... and is WALKING with a walker.

How'd he bounce back? Intense rehab, Doyle says. "He's been treating recovery like a true Olympian."

Probably never be the same though, right? Wrong. Doyle says Nieto expects he'll be on his feet, walking by himself in no time.

Paris Jackson apparently saw our story Monday -- that she's cut off all contact with her mom, Debbie Rowe, who's now battling breast cancer -- because we've learned Paris just contacted Debbie and proclaimed her love ... this according to Jackson family sources.

As we reported, Paris broke off contact with Debbie more than a year ago. We're told Paris' family was upset MJ's daughter had reconnected with Debbie after the singer's death and became close. On top of that, when Paris began acting out Debbie became the disciplinarian ... something Paris didn't like.

Debbie was diagnosed with breast cancer recently and will undergo surgery. We're told Paris texted Debbie, "I love you," and it appears the 2 will meet up after the surgery.

Michael Jackson's ex-wife has breast cancer, and their estranged daughter doesn't even know.

We've learned Debbie Rowe was diagnosed recently and will undergo surgery in the next week, but her daughter, 18-year-old Paris Jackson, has no idea because she broke all contact with her mom more than a year ago.

Rowe has all but given up on salvaging the relationship. After Michael died, Debbie and Paris got extremely close, to the point it created friction with the rest of the family.

When Paris began dealing with her own problems, the relationship fell apart. Rowe believes the family influenced their daughter and drove a wedge.

Lindsay Lohan will have to celebrate her 30th birthday without Dina Lohan ... who's holed up in a hospital and doctors have no idea what's wrong with her.

Sources close to Dina tell us she was taken to the hospital last Friday after complaining about severe stomach pains. We know what you're thinking -- it wasn't gas.

Doctors couldn't diagnose that initial pain, and we're told now Dina's aches have moved to her back and neck ... and it's getting worse. She's had several MRIs and CAT scans, but doctors are still baffled and Dina's spent the last 6 nights in the hospital.

The family sent us a pic, and while she seems to be in decent spirits ... we're told Dina's upset about missing LiLo's bday party in Greece.

Docs are managing her pain with meds.

A DJ claims Walgreens sold him defective earplugs and the results were catastrophic.

Joseph Alpern says in a new lawsuit he bought the plugs in 2013 because he was about to start working at a Brooklyn club known for its powerful sound system.

Alpern claims he used the plugs for several hours and when he left the club he removed them, only to experience "an immediate sharp pain, accompanied by a ringing sound."

He says the pain didn't go away, and 6 months later he realized the damage wasn't going away either ... he had constant ringing in both ears and couldn't sleep on his right side.

Alpern went to a specialist, who gave him bad news ... he had permanent nerve damage and blames it on the plugs. The doc said the plugs were sealed so tightly, when he pulled them out it severely pulled his eardrum.

Alpern says now he suffers headaches, he's constantly fatigued and can't even listen to music at regular volumes.

He's gunning for $640,000 ... minimum.

Judge Joe Brown is incapable of practicing law because of some sort of disability that renders him either physically or mentally impaired.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has put Brown on inactive status, meaning he cannot represent clients. As for why, Brown's production company says, "Judge Brown is suffering from what hopefully will prove to be a temporary disability as a result of complications following from Type II Diabetes and the effects of prescribed medications for the condition, combined with hypertension and stress."

A Tennessee disciplinary official tells us, the trigger for benching the former TV court judge was a disciplinary hearing. Brown was under fire for blowing a gasket at a judge in a Memphis juvenile court. The Tennessee Supreme Court determined Brown's disability made him unable to defend himself in the disciplinary hearing, so he was placed on inactive status.