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>> it >> it has been called part of the axis of evil and socialist nightmare. three generations from the same family control the most oppressive place on earth. he is the new dictator of north korea at 20 something years old. is there growing dissent? our cameras go inside the under ground railroad. >> secret groups helping north koreans get out. this is extremely dangerous. >> for the first time this detector speaks. >> we escaped over the river at the narrowest part. >> what does a hockey play, a banana baby from the 1930s and
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jennifer esposito have in common? >> we have sell celiac disease. >> it is what happens when food and what's in it becomes your enemy. >> i am ar they will neville. >> i am bell hemmer. this is "fox files." december 28th, 2011, sub zero temperatures and a winter snow gripped north korea as the world's most secretive and oppressive company laid to rest its supreme leader kim jong-il. the world got a rare glimpse inside this sealed off nation. hysterical throngs of north koreans lined the 25 mile route of the funeral procession a
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ritual of bizarre mourning it is unclear if it was genuine or motivated fear? >> people probably understand what would happen if they didn't show sufficient grief. >> much of it was forced. the state wanted them to behave this way. >> and the state was working over time in the days after kim jong-il's death. they were insuring that north koreans did not deviate from official ideology. >> north korea is the single most closed and repressive society arguably in human history. >> every thought and action is monitored. will there's a fear of the blackmer said that will show up at your home one day and take you off. >> you say there are tens of thousands of christians in north korea? >> there is an under ground christian church within north korea. christian organizations ranked as the most persecuted church in the world so we have tens of
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thousands of christians. >> it is probably unlike anything we saw in the 20th century. >> most important for the regime is creating a new cult of personalities around this man kim jong-un his father's third son and heir to the kingdom about him little is known. >> we don't even know how old he is. north korea hasn't released his birth date. we assume he's in his late 20s. but that's never been confirmed. >> he is believed to have studied in switzerland. we are not sure. >> what is known is he now commends xhands the world's 4th largest army with 1.1 million soldiers and a nuclear arsenal with 6 bombs. though the population of 22 million act with blind devotion to their new leader some people inside the country are beginning to show unprecedented dissent. >> he had the exodus of north korean country.
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>> the new under ground railroad is a network of safe houses and secret routes helping north koreans get out. this is extremely dangerous among christian missionaries who work with north koreans. >> in a fox files exclusive we tracked down one man who risked everything to escape with his family. >> how scared were you when you were crossing that border? >> i knew that in order to live i had to cross the river and get to the other side. >> they know when they leave north korea they and their families are risking death. >> korea has been a nation divided by barbed wire, armies and unevolved war stretching back to world war ii. >> they defeated after world war ii the peninsula divided the north and south. while the americans took control of the south the soviet union established the communist north in 1975 under the leadership of
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a 33-year-old radical named kim ill sun. >> he was one of the most dominant dick tearians of the 21st century. >> director of the institute of korean studies at the ohio state university. >> we talk of the stories about personalities were nothing compared to him. >> he was born in 1915 the same day the titanic was sinking. >> his mother and father took him to church. he was a christian. >> they cover asia for wall street journal and is author of the book "escape from north korea." >> kim ill sun went to church? >> yes. there were many christians in korea. pyongyang was known as the jerusalem of the east. >> by 1948 he is formally appointed head of the korean workers. he is the leader of north korea.
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>> over the next decade the cult of personality established around kim il sun. >> in 1955 the north korean government started its bizarre cult like ideology. >> what it basically says is the north korean people are almost a superior race and they need to determine the future of their country and advance their socialist revolution on their own. we have the power a huge white monument with one brick in the monument to symbol every day of the life of kim-il sun. a think tank. everything revolved around inventing a north korean society. >> in in 1994 after decades spent enslaving the north korean people kim ill sun died.
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>> there was genuine grieving when he side. it sunk in. people looked at him as almost a super natural being. >> his successor would try to become himself. >> kim jong-il is the oldest son born to his first wife. >> kim jong-il was said to be born on the sacred mountain. this is where by korean legend or korean nation began many thousands of years ago. >> the small mountain cabin where it is claimed his mother gave birth is today a shrine. >> in fact he was born in russia when his father was with the russian military. >> by the early 1980s it seemed that he had carved out a really significant niche for himself within the power structure. >> kim jong-il was a character of fun to a lot of people in the western world. because he was short and had
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that bouffant hair and wore elevator shoes. he was in truth a very brutal dictator. >> he has incredibly expensive taste in everything from alcohol to cigarettes to expensive boats. >> it was reported he loved american culture. >> he loved american culture. he had a library of many thousands of films. he once had a south korean actress, his favorite south korean actress abducted. she was kidnapped from the beach in hong kong and taken to north korea and required to become basically his actress slave. >> he had a history of kidnapping people. that's how -- inaudible) >> his own family experienced the cruelty of the north korean regime. >> migrate uncle was a leading engineer. >> your grandmother's brother. >> my mom and others in my
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family told me about how during the korean war the north koreans came across the border into south korea and they were looking for people that could help them build than infrastructu infrastructure. they took him into north korea. i often asked my bragrandmother about the story. it was difficult to hear about she never heard from or seen her brother since. >> the country has been a living hell for millions. >> the famine of the late 1990s killed more than a tenth of the population of north korea. >> we estimate 2-3 million north koreans starve. >> we hear stories of people still starving to death. people eating tree bark that survived in the worst case scenario the story of cannib cannibalism. >> it has gotten worse but it has always been terrible. >> the dynasty continues today with the third king, kim jong-un the spitting image of his
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grandfather. >> one of his first acts is the shoot to kill order. >> i think he is tear fied of revolt. >> if you are sent back from china into north korea what could happen to you? >> the punishment is death. r c? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur
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>> it has been almost a year since kim jong-un the third son of kim jong-il took power in north korea after his father's death. >> the other sons were perceived to be losers and this was the one who had the potential to be a leader. >> there are some who look at this as an opportunity perhaps he wouldn't be as ruthless. >> he made some statements that indicate he is a little hipper than his father was. he allowed his wife to be shown on tv. he appeared with life size character churs -- caricatures
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of mickey house. >> he amowed them women to dress in a more western fashion. >> there is little difference between him and his father and grandfather. one of the first things he did upon succeeding his father was to issue a shoot to kill order to north korean order guards. he said shoot anybody in the back who is trying to escape. >> they risk everything. they know when they leave north korea they are risking death. >> in 2001 mike kim left everything left behind in chicago and moved to northern china to help north korean detectors. >> lived in the china border hiding out with the north koreans sharing room with livestock in some periods. >> he chronicled some experiences in a book escaping north korea. >> for most americans under ground railroad has a certain history for us you think about 1800's and slavery and the fight
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to get north of the base mays done dixon line. how would you describe the under ground railroad from north korea and china? >> it's 6,000 miles running from north korea through china through southeast asia. >> it's a network of safe houses and secret groups. >> there are contacts along this entire root to help and to aid north koreans. >> some within your network some within another network that is willing to help, and you know people in those cities that are willing to risk housing the north koreans. >> mike founded crossing borders a christian organization devoted to helping north korean refugees. this man whom we will call pong is currently the organization's director. >> why are you in this? >> i help north korean people in china. it's illegal for any one to even feed a north korean refugee. >> if your identity was revealed? >> i could go to jail and more
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importantly the people that are working for us in china would go to jail and north koreans could be executed. we work threw true the under gr church in china we consider ourselves the first link to the under ground railroad. >> when i would first meet a north korean they would come to our shelter they would be scared out of their minds. they would sit as far away from me at the other end of the room as possible. >> in 2008 crossing borders helped this man a 46-year-old north korean detector his country. we agreed not to say his name. >> i had to flee because i helped others from the government. that is a political crime. >> getting out of north korea has the first hurdle. how do they do that? >> one is you can pay for bribes, boerldrder guards on th
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north korean and china side. the other way during the winter the river freezes over. people walk across the ice. >> i went over in broad daylight my daughter another person and myself. we went to the river and pretended to wash our faces and escaped over the narrowest part. >> he interviewed a detector in his small apartment in seoul, south korea. >> how scared were you when you were crossing the border? >> i knew in order to live i had toross the river and get to the other side. as soon as i got over the first thought that popped into my head was oh, yes, i am alive. >> once you cross from north korea into china it's not like the doors have been flung open for these people. there are dangers in china, too. >> they have zero tolerance policy toward north koreans in china. >> not only the police but china has seasons where they announce to their citizens along the borders to report north korean
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people to them so they can earn money. >> if you were sent back from china into north korea what could happen to you? >> committed treason by leaving the country and the punishment is death. >> his wife and second daughter crossed over into china almost a year later. >> we had an elder leader she called a local church. >> what happens to family members in north korea if it is discovered one of their family members has managed to escape successfully. >> their families would suffer. >> they will face most brutal torture right out of world war ii concentration camps. >> befoafter we fled my brotherd sisters and in-laws were taken to the intelligence officer interrogated. my brother in law was beaten so severely he is practically in a wheelchair. >> with the help they were
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hidden in northern china preparing to escape from that country. in august 2009 they boarded a train heading south with strict instructions. >> thoeld us we could not take anything especially not a cell phone. if you are captured they will be able to trace all of the numbers track down the people who helped you. >> the family spent a week on the train heading toward loose. but -- laos. but to get into china they had to cross the border on foot. >> it is a tough hike. >> we arrived at the embassy though gave us temporary passports to get to seoul. >> the whole family flew to south korea. the detectors knew life after a year and a half on the road to freedom had begun. >> when you arrive at international airport and step on south korean soil for the first time what was your
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>> seoul south korea the booming metropolis is only 36 miles from the border of north korea but an entire world apart. two years after he led the communist regime in the north he and his family became citizens of south korea in may of 2010. >> what was going through your mind when you held your korean citizenship for the first time? >> we were very emotional. it was a strange feeling to become a citizen of a country
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that i once hated. he and his family are adjusting to life in freedom but the same month they arrived in seoul his 7-year-old daughter died of an unknown infection. >> as a parent i always think about all of the things i could have given them and that weighs heavily on my mind. >> a sad ending to a long long journey. >> so many mixed emotions for refugees that come out of north korea to china to south korea. >> three generations of the kim family have maintained an iron grip on the isolated society of the north but it has not been completely impenetrable. >> balloons have been going across the dmz since the korean war. originally they dropped leaflets telling people about what life was like in south korea. >> one of the women i interviewed who was a north korean her job was to pick up anti north korean propaganda
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leaflets that were flown into north korea. how did you pick these propaganda leaflets up? because the regime taught me if i touched anything from south korea with my hands they would rot and fall off. >> today the balloons have gone high-tech they are often gps guided and can drop the information that they contain on a more targeted area. >> and the technology is starting to crack open the hermit kingdom. >> cell phones and the internet are starting to give them windows into the outer world they never thought of before. it may very well be that that will lead to much more radical change than he and the political elite are willing to accept. >> the north korean power elite and the military have too much
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invested in their oppression of this society. >> it appears kim jong-il has heard some of his father's generals. this man was often seen along side the new leader and then mysteriously fired from all of his duties in july of 2012. other powerful figures remain. this man seen here at the funeral is the general secretary of the korean worker's party. he is the man who over saw the development of north korea's nuclear bomb. >> there has been little indication that he is willing to open the country up. he certainly hasn't stop the nuclear or missile program and the crack down on the people still continues. >> as long as he does
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organizations like crossing borders will be there to help. >> what does your faith mean to what you are doing here? >> it has everything to do with what we do. we believe that god has created everyone equal, and that god created me just the same as god created north korean refugee. >> we have been able to change lives and i would do it all over again. it's very rewarding. >> and many koreans look forward to a future where their country is unified. >> absolutely. the vast majority of north koreans wish for that day. >> coming up, the medical histo mystery that almost destroyed a famous hollywood actress. >> this left undiagnosed like i have been for years creates havoc, the place i am now. >> this tough as nails hockey player. >> the disease began to really take a hold of me. with verizon.
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>> live from america's news headquarters i am harris falkner. with the cease fire between israel and the terror group hamas just days old a new report shows israeli intelligence now say it spotted a ship carrying missiles and rockettes potentially headed for gaza to help rearm hamas. the weapons believing to be coming from iran. the sunday times of london reporting they may be the same types recently fired into israel. it will not allow any efforts to rearm hamas. shopping alert black friday shattered retail sales this year. nearly 250 million consumers shopping in stores and on-line spending about 60 billion bucks. analysts say you haven't seen anything yet. tomorrow is cyber monday and they believe it will be a record breaker as well. 30 million americans clicking on and checking out web deals. happy shopping. i am harris falkner, now back to fox files.
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>> oo what does a famous hollywood actress, a tough fearless hockey player, and a woman who grew up in the 1930s have in common? they are all in the center of a medical histo medical mystery which may effect 3 million people in the united states. jennifer esposito's story. >> you are a new york girl all of the way. >> i am. born in brooklyn and raised in staten island. i p wanted to come into the city and start my acting career. >> growing up in a middle class family actress jennifer esposito caught everyone's attention with television shows like "spin city" to award winning films like "crash" and her most recent work on cbs's blue blood. but while her hollywood star was rising, she was suffering from an illness that was slowly debilitating her.
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>> when did you realize or your family realize that something was wrong? >> when i was a teenager i had problems with getting colds and infections, sinus infections all of the time. so much so that i was hospitalized with monday no. >> she was suffer and as a family we would say okay, she is sick again. >> susan russo is jen you have's older sister. >> at a young age she was suffering from stomach issues. she had mood swings, she had anxiety. no answers. >> how many tests. how nanny doctors visits are we talking about? hundreds? thousands? >> i couldn't name the amounts of tests between colonoscopies, berrien enemas. >> jen as you called her was the sister who was saying something is wrong with me. did it take a toll on you and your family? >> yes. we didn't have an understanding of it because none of the
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doctors she had gone to came up with a proper diagnosis. >> the money i have spent in trying to make people listen. i would sit with a therapist over and over but every time they would give me prozac or xanax and i would say that's not it. there's something else going on. >> as her career soared she struggled with her health. it was after 19 long agonizing years a doctor finally gave her an accurate diagnosis. >> i was so ill i could barely walk in there. i think she really saw something. two-days after that she had called and said you have sell back celiac's disease and it is the highest case i have ever seen. i don't know how you are functioning like this. i had no idea what she was talking about. >> here's the question, what is
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celiac ceasdisease? >> it is an auto immune disease like diabetes or multiple sclerosis. >> she sat down with the doctor at the forefront of celiac research he's the director of the biology research and center for celiac research at the university of maryland. studies show one percent of the population or one in 133 people in the united states have the disease. yet only a small fraction know they have it. >> we know what causes diabetes and ms but we don't with this disease. >> what is gluten? that's what we hear about more than anything. >> it is the most abundant thing in specific grains like wheat, rye and barley. not able to completely digest this. that is where why it creates so
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many problems. >> the gluten has damaged or killed the villi, the vilely surrounds the small intest tens and it is what is used to bring the nutrients in. when this gets damaged or die it's like you are starving yourself and not absorbing nutrients. it is basically to put it simply is like small holes in the gut where when i eat and when i digest anything that slips through those holes and goes into the bloodstream my auto immune system it feels like it's getting attacked so it attacks it. >> where does the biggest source of gluten come from? >> bread, pasta, pizza, beer, cookies, bagels. these are the obvious source. the other thing that makes the story more complicated a gluten is used as a filler.
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it's a wonderful natural filler that you can mix in prepacked food. >> wheat gluten. >> great stuff but your body can't tolerate it. >> the baby didn't have colic? he had celiac disease? >> besides celiac disease there are other forms of gluten reaction. one is a gluten wheat alley the other is newer and known as gluten sensitivity. this also causes your immune system to react and cause problems. >> the disease there's a blood test. there's a simple screening test they are good at identifying gluten sensitivity we don't have a test for it yet. >> do you think jennifer's case got to that point? she spent years trying to find a diagnosis. >> even when she was diagnosed going gluten free it took much longer than expected to go back to a more acceptable life. her body took a major hit.
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>> here she is this successful actress and in terms of stereotyping they want to sigh she is difficult, why do you want to eat this? why do you feel faint. her body is collapsing from the inside out. >> unfortunately she had a severe type, a successful young woman in that kind of business and you are just finicky or you are exaggerating and so on and so forth. >> what are the symptoms if someone has xyz that's where you almost demand your doctor to check for celiac disease. >> the symptoms can go from bloating to diarrhea, constipati constipation, to no stomach issues which is tricky for most people. i say any time you are feeling sur mountable feeling of exhaustion there's something going on. if you think that there is a possibility you have it, you
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want to be safer rather than sorry. you need to get a proper diagnosis. this left undiagnosed like i have been for years creates havoc, the place i am in now. >> today with more people being diagnosed with celiac disease the market for gluten free products has exploded. >> if you look at the market north america in 2003 the market was roughly $100 million. >> this year alone is valued at $4.2 billion. a gluten free lifestyle isn't cheap. >> i do not leave the health food market with under $100 and i probably go food shopping three, four times a week. >> that's just for you. >> that's just for me. that's just for me. that's fresh fruit and vegetables. i buy organic. it's expensive. >> fox files was there when jennifer's battle with celiac's disease made headlines. what do this hockey player and banana baby from the 1930s have
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>> it was like someone took a veil off my face.
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>> mickey redmond is no stranger to pain. he won two stanley cups playing for the montreal canadiens and ended his career as a top goal scorer for the detroit red wings. >> the red wings put a lot of pressure on redmond. he is the voice for hockey fox 2k50e9. >> when were you finally diagnosed with celiac? >> i remember going to many, many different doctors. at the time we are talking early 70s. they would say you have got this, this or this or this over here. i said well what is this over here? that was we don't know. as it turns out 20-years later around 1994 i got diagnosed with celiac. >> going back to when you were younger in your 20s you had the symptoms what was going on? >> the lifestyle we led as professional athletes in those
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days wasn't exactly a lifestyle that would be copyed by a lot of people or should be. there was cigarettes involved and few beers and you are not supposed so feel real good when you do stuff like that. as a result you get used to feeling poorly. >> what clued you in, though? this is a little bit beyond oh sure i am a hockey player we are drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. >> the disease began to really take a hold of me. i broke out -- you get really bad and sensitive to it. i was sleeping a lot. >> as he experienced early on gluten is found in many other products besides food. >> with celiac everything that goes into your mouth and is ingested but you have to worry about mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo all of those things.
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i remember six months later standing in the bathroom still getting sick wondering i am clean as a wiles. might have been a bottle of lister reason or something like that. i went, wow. wait a minute. the alcohol or whatever is in it depends on the source and all that. >> just like mickey jennifer is always careful with what she eats which for her is even more challenging. fox files accompanied her on a visit with her doctor. >> we are going to go over your oral gees in addition to the celac, gluten and dairy. we have almonds, beef, chocolate, egg yolk, bananas, broccoli, peanuts, onions, cod fish, soybeans and chicken in addition to the barley rye oats and wheat and all of the other gluten grades. >> it is ridiculous. >> as a result she is constantly
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creating her own gluten free recipes. >> look at these babies. >> jennifer's cookies. >> your chocolate chip cookies. >> i love these cookies. i swear to god. >> well done. >> thank you. >> should we do the cookie dance. >> i know, i know. >> after i make some i am like, whoa. i am serious. >> someone said you can never have this for the rest of your life? >> i would be done. >> in a weird twist of fate little did they know they had something common with this won. >> i was born in 1936 and i came to the hospital when i was 9 months old. >> meet barbara hudson also known as a banana baby. during the 1930s she was one of the first reported cases at the university of maryland where they treated children with the mysterious symptoms that we now know as celiac disease.
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>> do you remember the symptoms your mother told you what was happening to you? >> evidently i had diarrhea, i was not gaining weight. so then they told my mother to bring me down to the university hospital to drop me off don't come see her for six weeks. but i said for over 9 months and the hospital became my home. >> after you left the hospital, once they leased you what diet did they put you on? >> baked bananas and bavarian buttermilk. >> the routine was she would bake 3 bananas a day. i would eat one for breakfast one for lunch and one banana for dinner. >> how long did you stay on this banana diet? >> for about two years then the pediatrician said he thought we could add other foods to my diet. he would add a different food each week. and finally at the age of 6 i
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had my first ice cream and milk. a >> what did you think? >> i thought it was wonderful. >> why bananas? >> bausz they contain all of the salt, the nutrients and some protein that allows you to survive. >> jennifer, mickey and barbara have each shed light on the mystery of celiac disease. >> i tell you my day has been consumed with bringing information -- between a blog, jennifer's voice.org, jennifer foundation on celiac education everything i do to bring awareness. >> i do spend a lot of time talking to people on the phone about it. i speak to team about it. i am more than happy to do that to help them get through the early stages of this. especially younger kids. >> if there is a good gluten
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free recipe i will pass it on to somebody else with celiac disease so they can have something fun to eat as well as being good for them. >> jennifer's battle with blue bloods makes headlines. bloods makes headlines. our exclusive with an intense burning sensation i woke up with this horrible rash on my right side. like somebody had set it on fire. and the doctor said, cindie, you have shingles. he said, you had chickenpox when you were a little girl... i said, yes, i did. i don't think anybody ever thinks they're going to get shingles. but it happened to me. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com
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>> that is jennifer esposito starring along side donnie little did we know back in september when fox files interviewed jennifer about celiac's disease there was turmoil behind the scenes. cbs put out this statement. >> jennifer has informed us she is only available to work on a very limited part-time schedule.
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as a result she is unable to perform the demand of her role and we regretfully had to put her character on a leave of absence. she is a wonderfully talented actress and we hope she will be able to return at some point in the future. >> jennifer sat down exclusively with fox files to give us her side of the story. >> when blue blood goes on friday someone released pictures of him and a new partner. they don't like that. people don't like change especially with donnie and what had happened there was such a surge in where is jackie, actually go jackie was trending one night. not blue blood but go jackie. cbs next day saturday at 5:00 put out a statement and i saw it and immediately was like oh, really? no, no, no. i am begging them to let me out of my contract let me work or pay me what you owe me. no.
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uh-uh. >> jennifer took to twitter with her response. >> they have blocked me from working anywhere else after my doctor said you need to reduce your schedule due to celiac. >> they have a job they need to be done. i get it. you don't think i can get it within the 2-3 days i am offering in that work space of 8 days i get it you have to replace me. that is not what happened. what happened is ugliness. >> tell me the day you collapsed onset. tell us what happened? >> got in the van and i fell asleep on the way to the set. and i just felt my head spinning. i got out and i took two steps and my knees went, down to the floor. i caught myself on a fence. they brought me into the makeup room again i fell. they said i will get the medic. th
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there is nothing unless you can kaur me of celiac disease we have been trying to tell you. no medic right now. they had to carry me into the car and bring me to the doctor where i went and i was there for 7 hours. >> where does this stand with you and cbs? >> i have an extension which meant i am still in contract without pay i am on suspension they legally stop paying and i am not able to work on any other tv show on network. i can do a film or broadway or something on cable that doesn't go into the 10:00 time slot. they carry my contract without pay yes it's completely illegal but they knew i didn't have the money or means to sue them. i have been in president busine -- i i have been in the business for 20-years.
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