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What Happened To Chris Hardwick? His Illness, And Present Health Condition

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John Parsons

Published Feb 18, 2026

An American comedian, actor, producer, and writer, Christopher Ryan Hardwick the host of the popular live television aftershow is rumored to be fatally sick. The rumors of his illness have surfaced around the internet for quite a while now, we have all the information you need on the topic. Do you want to know What Happened To Chris Hardwick?

The talking dead host, Christopher Ryan Hardwick is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, and television and podcast host. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Christopher’s dad was a professional ten-pin bowler Billy Hardwick and his mother Sharon Hills a real estate agent based in California, Pasadena.

Hardwick was raised in his mother’s Roman Catholic faith which made his childhood quite religious. He met his lifelong friend comedian Joan Rivers at the age of four for the first time.

Having an alcohol addiction, Hardwick went a long time abusing his habits of drinking for years till Oct 2003 when he felt like it was about time to quit, and has been sober since then. One of his former co-workers stated that Hardwick “replaced his alcoholism with workaholism”

During his years of a long career, we find him raveled in abuse allegations but no data of him having a life-threatening disease or condition is out in any reliable source. The rumor of him suffering from an illness is probably fake. He is living a fine and healthy life and no news of him being admitted or visiting any hospital or clinic is out in the public.

Ex-girlfriend’s Abuse Allegations surrounding Hardwick

Chloe Dykstra, Hardwick’s former girlfriend on June 14, 2018, published an essay on Medium. In this essay, she alleged that her unnamed ex-boyfriend made her subject to emotional and sexual abuse. One of her claims was a threat of career blacklisting if she pursued to end the ongoing toxic relationship. Although the essay hadn’t disclosed the name of her abuser, people were quick to assume it was Hardwick since the timing and several other details led to him.

The essay was welcomed with a heavy response from Hardwick collaborators at that time, all of his mentions were removed from Nerdist’s website and the future episodes of Talking with Chris Hardwick got shut down by AMC.

Hardwick in response said, “Our 3-year long relationship wasn’t perfect. we were ultimately not a good match and argued, even shouted at each other but I loved her and did my best to uplift and support her as a partner in any way and no I never sexually or physically assaulted her.”

Later on July 25, 2018, AMC announced the return of Hardwick as the host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick as their private investigation alongside law firm Loeb and Loeb failed to confirm the allegations.

Know more about his Wiki bio, Instagram, and Married life

Born on November 23, 1971, in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Rhyan Hardwick is age 50 currently. His birth name is Christopher Ryan Hardwick and he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

Married to Lydia Hearst in 2016, Chris and Lydia welcomed their first baby to earth, daughter Dimity Facente Hearst-Hardwick, on Jan 29.

His Instagram more than 1.4m followers where he constantly posts pictures of his work, his newly born daughter, and his spouse.

Chris and his early career days

During the mid-1990s Hardwick was on air at the Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM as a professional DJ. He also starred in the UPN comedy Guys Like Us, it ran only 1 year with 12 episodes from the fall of 1998 to the start of 1992.

He has made his appearances throughout many commercial movies in different genres like Rob Zombie’s horror films House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween II, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and The Mother of Invention in 2010.

His hosting career started in 1993 with the game show “Trashed” on MTV. The show basically was a truth-or-dare-themed quiz of trivia questions, answer or have your belongings destroyed. Hardwick also collaborated and co-hosted “Singled out” (1995-1998), a dating game show in which the main participant selects from a group of 50 people based on their attributes without having to see them in real.

He met actress and model Jacinda Barrett on the set of Singled Out whom he got engaged but their marriage never happened.