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    Margaret Cho remembers how weight-loss drug led to a gross onstage accident that ruined her outfit and automobile

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     Margaret Cho performs at The Drop: Margaret Cho at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on April 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.  Margaret Cho performs at The Drop: Margaret Cho at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on April 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
    Margaret Cho performs in April 2025. Credit score:

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    Effectively, that's one strategy to ditch your pants… and your automobile.

    Margaret Cho is letting free (sorry) concerning the time she pooped her pants onstage on the finish of a comedy present through the early aughts — whereas she was sporting an all-white outfit, naturally.

    "I began taking these medication that will take away the fats from the meals that you simply ate,” the comic stated not too long ago on the How to Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, including that "these bizarre medication" would "simply make you s—."

    Cho continued, "And there was one time I used to be sporting all white at a present, and I used to be killing, I used to be doing rather well, and I used to be virtually on the finish and I began to s— out. I couldn't management it. It was beginning to come out. It was like, as a result of it was all oil. It was simply grease as a result of it was fats — you take away the fats out of your meals, all that comes out is that this, it appeared like pepperoni grease that you simply blot on prime of a pizza."

    Comedian Margaret Cho performs on stage during Moontower Comedy Festival at The Paramount Theatre on April 11, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
    Margaret Cho performs onstage throughout Moontower Comedy Pageant in April 2024.

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    Cho, who didn't title the venue or present different particulars of the efficiency itself, defined that the unnamed treatment, which was purported to be for weight reduction, was orange, therefore the colour. "I simply began spurting orange grease out of my a–hole whereas I'm onstage, and I ended the present whereas the s— is popping out," she defined, including, "I received a standing ovation. They needed an encore. All I may do was again up out of view and simply again up by way of the curtains. I used to be in a theater."

    Fortunately for Cho, it was a small theater and no person was backstage or within the parking zone, and the entire viewers have been within the entrance of the home. Due to this fact, after backing up out of the stage, she "squatted on the bottom, and I let the remainder of the oil out of my a–hole simply to alleviate the cramping."

    The pants she was sporting have been hopeless, she recalled, which sadly additionally affected her automobile, which she stated she ended up simply changing. "I received within the automobile, I may nonetheless hear the viewers applauding like demanding an encore," she stated. "As I drove away, I had an enormous orange oil stain within the entrance seat of my automobile that I couldn’t get out. I needed to simply get a brand new automobile."

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    When requested by Day what her "mindset" was within the automobile after the present, Cho admitted she was "actually upset."

    "I used to be crying," she stated. "I used to be actually like disgusted. I used to be additionally involved as a result of I knew I used to be staining the seat in my automobile and I used to be undecided how I used to be getting [it out] as a result of it wasn't like leather-based seats. They have been like material seats that will soak up it."

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    Nevertheless, ever the comic, Cho did admit that, amid the tears, she additionally needed to giggle on the scenario: "I used to be additionally laughing cuz that is like actually humorous, too, but it surely's horrible, and I've achieved it to myself."

    Ethical of the story? "I ended taking the medication at that time," she admitted.

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