LOS ANGELES -actor Ed Asner was released from a Chicago-area hospital on Thursday, two days after leaving the stage during a performance and treatment of exhaustion is retrieved, the publicist for the former "Lou Grant" television star said.
Asner, 83, was on his way to Los Angeles and was told by doctors in order to get some rest, said Charles Sherman.
The Emmy-winning actor was hospitalized on Tuesday after appearing disoriented at the beginning of his one-man show "FDR," in which he President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in Gary, Indiana.
"That's what the doctors suspect, but exhaustion," said Sherman, adding that Asner upcoming performances of "FDR" has canceled in Milwaukee and Tennessee.
"Ed will resume performing ' FDR ' in mid-april, but of course, we will have to see how his health," Sherman said.
Asner, best known for playing the gruff newsman Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and spin-off drama series "Lou Grant," poked fun at his health on Twitter.
"Reports of my imminent demise are greatly exaggerated," Asner wrote about the social network on Wednesday. "They tell me that I am suffering from exhaustion. Thanks for the congratulations! " — Reuters
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