After suffering a series of strokes while shooting his hit TV series "Hercules" in the late 1990s Kevin Sorbo spent four months learning how to walk again.

The actor woke up one day with blurry vision and went to the hospital. Doctors determined he had an aneurysm in an artery near his shoulder, which had been producing blood clots for some time.

Sorbo struggled with his health problems in secret, going public in 2011.

He explained on the "Today" show: "It took four months of rehab to learn how to walk again. It took three, four years to recover."

Fortunately Sorbo wasn't permanently af...

To audiences, Kevin Sorbo was a demi-God in the ‘90s TV hit, “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” but off cameras the actor was fighting for his life. Few people knew that the now 53-year-old endured three strokes, which nearly destroyed his career as playing the strongest man on earth. After over a decade of hiding his struggles, Sorbo now bares all in his memoir, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal-and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life. In Sorbo’s first book, “Hercules” fans finally learn the truth behind his secret battles with his health and how he conquered them, all wh...

TV hunk Kevin Sorbo has opened up about a secret health battle he faced while shooting hit show "Hercules" - the actor suffered a series of strokes.

Sorbo suffered severe aches and pains during and immediately after intense work-outs as he was fighting to maintain his impressive physique for the show in the late 1990s, but doctors he visited on a press tour insisted his ailments were nothing to worry about.

Sorbo tells Neurology Now magazine, "At the time, I was promoting the feature film 'Kull the Conqueror.' I had several doctors on my publicity tour check me out, but they didn't believ...

Hercules is set for a big return to the spotlight with Hancock moviemaker Peter Berg keen to remake the cult TV series as a blockbuster. Berg will produce and direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars for Universal Studios.

The project will be adapted from a five-issue comic book series, which debuted in May.

Casting details have yet to be announced; Kevin Sorbo played Hercules on TV.

The project isn't the only remake Berg is planning - the actor/director is also set to direct and produce a new film version of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic Dune.

The classic book has already ...

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Bitter former TV Hercules Kevin Sorbo has lashed out at former pal Sam Raimi for not signing him up for any of the Spider-Man movies. The actor claims the director bears a grudge towards him because he once snubbed a film offer from him to make Kull The Conqueror - and he's upset Raimi has never called to ask him to consider a part in a Spider-Man film.

Sorbo, who played Hercules for Raimi from the mid to late 1990s, tells website FilmStew.com, "I busted my ass on 'Hercules' and I almost died doing it. I had an aneurysm that exploded in my body that almost killed me. I think I'm a goo...

Happy Birthday to Olympic gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm (1982), WWE star Stephanie McMahon (1976), Slipknot percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan (1969), "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos (1962), "Hercules" star Kevin Sorbo (1958), Morphine bassist Mark Sandman (1952; d. 1999), Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar (1951), "NewsRadio" star Phil Hartman (1948; d. 1998), "NYPD Blue" actor Gordon Clapp (1948), Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden (1942), singer Linda McCartney (1941; d. 1998), "Muppets" creator Jim Henson (1936; d. 1990), and "The Great Gatsby" author F. Scott...