Actor Joe Manganiello has shared a hellish story about how being cast as Deathstroke in Ben Affleck's scrapped Batman movie motivated him to overcome some drastic health issues.

The Hollywood Reporter has shared an excerpt from Manganiello's new memior, titled Bloodlines, where he shares the nightmare-ish situation he was dealing with when he was cast as Deathstroke. The actor was set to play the villain in a Batman film directed by and starring Ben Affleck in the late 2010s. As it turns out, Manganiello was suffering from a ton of health issues that nearly killed him around the time of his casting.

The actor revealed that he collapsed on the set of a Seal Team Six mini-series in 2016, resulting in an extended hospital stay so doctors could discern the unexplainable autoimmune disease that was "attacking his thyroid and ravaging his intestines." He experienced rectal bleeding that stained his hospital room, and said that his entire large intestine had been turned to "pus" and was about to explode, which would've been fatal. Doctors had to remove much of it and replaced it with an ostomy bag, which holds digestive waste in a pouch that stays on the outside of his body.

During his recovery, the actor went from 235 pounds to 176 pounds and was struggling with the bag, which would leak and erupt waste in the middle of the night. The entire experience took a heavy mental toll on him, leading to nervous breakdowns. However, he was given a glimmer of hope for a return to normalcy and a chance at advancing his career with the biggest role he'd been offered to date.

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