RACHAEL Ray has reignited health concerns after displaying what fans are calling bizarre behavior in a recent cooking video.
Rachael, 56, often posts show clips for her FYI Network cooking show Rachael Ray’s Meals in Minutes.
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Her latest video cooking fajitas for the season finale left fans feeling concerned for the chef.
Rachael started the video by putting two bowls filled with food on her head and saying, “Look, I’m Princess Leia.”
She continued, “You guys better be ready to eat. Because this is quite a pileup of food here.
“What the heck Batman. I think these should be called fun-jitas because it makes you want to have fun.
“They’re easy, you can eat them with one hand. You can walk around while you eat them. It’s a good time.”
FAN CONCERN
Rachael mispronounced specific words in the video.
One follower asked, “What happened to this lady?”
A second said, “Praying for healing for you.”
A third wrote, “Yeah I like fajitas, delish, but walk around? Nope, messy to eat just as a taco is. A food that needs to be eaten over a plate while at a table imo.”
Another commented on her jokes, “Rachel I’m glad you find that funny, but it’s not funny at all.”
PAST WORRY
In a clip for Rachael Ray in Tuscany last year, she appeared to be slurring her speech during the cooking show.
“Omg is she ok? What happened?” one fan wrote on Instagram.
Another commented, “This is concerning. Something is not right.”
A third expressed, “I love you but are you ok? I’m seriously concerned.”
Rachael did not address the concerns and instead filtered the comments on her videos.
In another video, she shared the instructions for making her shrimp and chorizo paella on Instagram.
“Hope you are doing okay,” one person commented under Rachael’s post.
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PODCAST CONFESSIONS
On Rachael’s podcast, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, she has opened up about her health.
On one October episode, she spoke about an incident at her Lake Luzerne, New York home, where she lives with husband John Cusimano.
“I am a homemaker. I love chores, I love being in the kitchen… I really like chores,” she told her guest.
“What people consider physical work… I like making dinners, planning dinners, making lists.”
Rachael then went on to share her love of “physical labor,” which she admitted has been on pause.
“I like to help carry in the wood,” she said. “I had a couple of bad falls in the last couple of weeks so I haven’t been doing that in a while.”
On the November 12 episode, Rachael revealed why she wakes up at 4 o’clock in the morning.
“I’ve gotten worse as I’ve gotten older, because I feel like time might be shorter, and I want my time to be more, every minute of it,” she told her guest.
In the November 19 episode, she opened up about how her dogs help her through her difficult days.
She said, “It just brings you a ray of life. What it brings to a human, that unconditional love, it really gets you through dark days.
“For me, if I have the worst day, or sick as a dog, the things that make me feel best, go home, climb into bed with a blanket with my dog!”
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The U.S. Sun even reported Rachael filed for her husband to be her power of attorney decades before worry began.
The document reads, “The powers you grant below continue to be effective should you become disabled or incompetent.
“Caution: This is an important document. It gives the person whom you designate (your agent) broad powers to handle your property during your lifetime, which may include powers to mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property without advance notice to you or approval by you.
“These powers will continue to exist even after you become disabled or incompetent.”
The document continued, “This document does not authorize anyone to make medical or other health care decisions. You may execute a health care proxy to do this.”
Rachael only gave John authority for “real estate transactions.”
Rachael and John signed off on the document on July 19, 2005, just weeks before their September 24, 2005 wedding.
ATTORNEY SPEAKS OUT
Beverly Hills attorney Adam Michael Sacks explained a power of attorney could be granted for certain reasons, including if the requesting party has health issues.
“It is something that would be done if you are sick,” Mr. Sacks told The U.S. Sun.
“The power of attorney can make certain decisions. There are certain things you have to sign if you own a house that needs to be sold and you’re, for example, in a coma. With power of attorney, it lets that person sign for you.
“Attorney means someone who acts for you. If I am your attorney, I can go to court and act for you. He would make the decision if she’s unable to.”
He continued, “It’s not common. One of the reasons is when you know you have a problem, like you’re sick or getting older.
“It has to be someone you completely trust, like a spouse. You would have them make decisions as though it were you.”
Outside of health reasons, Mr. Sacks said power of attorney could be for financial help.
He explained her potential reasoning, “I’m a chef, I can’t deal with money, I trust my husband or lawyer, he can take care of it.”
RACHAEL’S CAREER
Rachael appeared on ABC’s Rachael Ray Show from 2006 to 2023.
Rachael left the show to launch her own production company, Free Food Studios.
She told Deadline at the time, “My passions have evolved from the talk show format production and syndication model to a platform unencumbered by the traditional rules of distribution.
“That is why I am looking forward to putting all my energies into my recently announced production arm, Free Food Studios.”
She also runs the nonprofit organization Yum-o!, which “empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cook through three main initiatives: Cook, Feed and Fund.”
The U.S. Sun previously reported she filed a two new trademarks on October 4, 2024 for pizza peels, non-electric pizza cutters and egg poachers, seemingly to expand her cooking empire.
She launched her weekly podcast, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, on Tuesday, October 22.
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