{"id":49255,"date":"2026-05-10T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49255"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:17:05","slug":"chuck-norris-walked-away-from-hollywood-and-slept-on-a-hospital-couch-for-five-months-what-he-did-for-his-dying-wife-stunned-fans-who-only-knew-the-tough-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49255","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Norris Walked Away from Hollywood and Slept on a Hospital Couch for Five Months \u2014 What He Did for His Dying Wife Stunned Fans Who Only Knew the Tough Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s going on here, she&#8217;s dying, she&#8217;s dying right in front of me here at this hospital,&#8221; Chuck said, voice shaking.The bed beside him held his wife of 27 years. She couldn&#8217;t feel parts of her body. She couldn&#8217;t feed herself. One of her arms was drawn up at an angle, locked in place. She couldn&#8217;t swallow, and was being fed baby food.Chuck didn&#8217;t go home that night. He didn&#8217;t go home the next night either.He pulled a book from the stack he&#8217;d brought with him, opened it, and started to read aloud to her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.The man known for roundhouse kicks and one-liners had a question now, and no script for it: how do you fight something you can&#8217;t punch?&#8221;By the fourth, fifth, sixth night, the burning just kept traveling and I would go in and they&#8217;d say, well what&#8217;s wrong with you? And I&#8217;m like I, I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t feel good. I&#8217;m burning. That&#8217;s all I can tell you is I&#8217;m burning all over. I feel like I have acid everywhere in my tissues, I&#8217;m just, I&#8217;m on fire,&#8221; she&#8217;d told the cameras later.huck couldn&#8217;t fix on-fire. He couldn&#8217;t roundhouse-kick a heavy metal sitting in his wife&#8217;s bones.o he did the only thing left.He stayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s going on here, she&#8217;s dying, she&#8217;s dying right in front of me here at this hospital,&#8221; Chuck said, voice shaking.The bed beside him held his wife&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49257,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49255\/revisions\/49257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}