Ashton Kutcher and his twin brother Michael open up about their relationship and reveal that they've shared everything their entire lives because they 'didn't know that there was another way.'
"We definitely duked it out quite a bit," Michael agreed onSibling rivalry was pushed to the backburner in eighth grade, when Michael developed flu-like symptoms. When he didn't improve after a week, Diane took Michael to the emergency room, where they soon discovered that he had an enlarged heart and needed a transplant. He was given three to four weeks to live.
"Ashton went to his parents and said, 'Take my heart.' He said it truthfully. He really wanted to give it to his brother," Dr. Agus told ET."...The person he loved most in the world, his brother, [was] going through this and he wasn't able to... just push [Michael] along. He had helped his brother with cerebral palsy and some social issues at school, but now here's an issue that he can't fix.
"[He] wanted to find cures and develop different research around my heart ailment. That was his career path at first," Michael said on his podcast, with ,"He wanted to help others and try to find a reason why this virus struck his brother's heart.""He kind of tussled with that invite for a while. He did the talent show, actually won the talent show," Michael recalled on the podcast.
Though Ashton was experiencing success, he also had guilt. Michael was quick to banish those thoughts from Ashton's mind. Eventually, though, Ashton unknowingly outing him allowed Michael to"fall into my purpose" of CP and organ donation awareness, he said on the "[Ashton] did me the biggest favor he's ever done because he allowed me to be myself.
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