Jim Parsons and his husband, Todd Spiewak, contracted the novel coronavirus in mid-March, he revealed on Monday.
“Todd and I both had it early on,” the “Big Bang Theory” star, 47, shared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “It was like … middle of March. We didn’t know what it was. We thought we had colds. And then it seemed less likely, and then finally we lost our sense of smell and taste.”
“It defied the descriptions for me,” Parsons added. “I didn’t realize how completely taste and smell could be gone.”
According to the “Boys in the Band” star, losing his sense of taste resulted in “a lot of wasted calories” considering that, while under quarantine, “there’s really nothing to do but eat.”
He also feels like he wasted a lot of time while recovering, unable to complete several tasks he had lined up.
“I don’t know if the truth is, well, you’re just an actor and that’s what you do and that’s what you should do or if it’s just I really don’t have the see-through stick-to-itness for anything,” he explained. “It’s sort of embarrassing but, you know, here I am.”
