Star Trek legend William Shatner was hospitalized for a medical emergency involving his blood sugar late Wednesday afternoon, sources with direct knowledge said.
Shatner, 94, who is beloved by Trekkies as the show’s lead character Captain Kirk, is said to have experienced the health downturn while at his home in Los Angeles.
Insiders say that when the issue occurred, he called the emergency services and a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance arrived on the scene.
He was purportedly taken to a local hospital for evaluation, and is now ‘resting comfortably’ and doing ‘good,’ the sources informed TMZ.
Shatner still has multiple acting projects in the pipeline and appears at fan events, including a panel at Dragon Con in Atlanta only last month.
The Daily Mail has reached out to his representative for comment.
Star Trek legend William Shatner was hospitalized for a medical emergency involving his blood sugar late Wednesday afternoon, sources with direct knowledge said; pictured this June
Shatner, 94, is beloved by Trekkies as the show’s lead character Captain Kirk, whom he is pictured playing in 1966 at the height of the franchise’s popularity
The health scare comes over a year after Shatner revealed he is a cancer survivor, having previously being diagnosed with stage four melanoma.
He explained that he had an operation and then underwent immunotherapy to treat the condition, although he did not disclose when, according to the industry publication Managed Healthcare Executive.
In 2016 he received a prostate cancer diagnosis that turned out to be a false alarm, thanks to a drastic spike in his levels of PSA (prostate-specific antigen), a protein produced by the gland.
‘That was really scary,’ Shatner remembered to NBC News. ‘I was told by a doctor I had a terminal disease. That I was going to die.’
He attributed his elevated levels of PSA to testosterone supplements that he was taking at the time of his misdiagnosis, and that he has since stopped using.
Shatner is best-known as the Starship Enterprise’s Captain Kirk, whom he played through the run of the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969.
The cast featured Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy, James Doohan as Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott and Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura.
Shatner reprised the part of Captain Kirk on the animated series and the first seven films, including the 1982 fan favorite Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Shatner still has multiple acting projects in the pipeline and appears at fan events, including a panel at Dragon Con in Atlanta only last month (pictured)
He is also known for later career roles such as the title character on the 1980s police procedural T.J. Hooker and a beauty pageant master of ceremonies in the 2000 Sandra Bullock comedy Miss Congeniality.
Shatner still enjoys a busy career with three upcoming projects on his IMDb, and his love life attracted speculation just last month when remarriage rumors started flying.
His fourth ex-wife Elizabeth Martin, who at 66 is nearly three decades his junior, split from him in 2019 but reunited with him during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This August they were spotted stepping out to lunch together at Jon & Vinny’s in Los Angeles, and Martin sported a dazzling diamond ring on her wedding finger.
Although they arrived in separate cars, they spent an hour together inside the restaurant before exiting, an onlooker told the Daily Mail.
The pair were previously married for 18 years before finalizing their divorce in early 2020, with him paying her a $2 million lump sum in alimony according to the terms of their prenuptial agreement, TMZ reported.
Shatner is an avid horse breeder while Martin is a retired equestrian, and in the divorce they evenly divided up their four horses, with the proviso that he was able to retain all their equipment for the animals as well as ‘all horse semen.’
The couple quickly reunited amid the pandemic, and last year he remarked that they were ‘in effect remarried’ despite not having sorted out the legal formalities.
Rumors recently swirled that he has remarried his fourth ex-wife Elizabeth Martin, whom he split from in 2019 only to reunite with during the COVID-19 pandemic; pictured 2004
Shatner is best-known as the Starship Enterprise’s Captain Kirk, whom he played through the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969; pictured in 1968
He stated that he and Martin were unlikely to officially tie the knot again, owing to pragmatic concerns connected to their divorce, in an interview with Parade.
‘The reasons we divorced were many, but none of them had to do with distaste. It had to do with more practical things that I want to avoid happening [again], so that’s what I did,’ he explained to the magazine in March of last year.
However by this February a source alleged that Martin and Shatner were planning to get legally married, via Radar Online, though his representative denied the claims.
‘He was so lonely without Elizabeth. He has realized he doesn’t want to be without her ever again, and she feels the same way,’ said the insider. ‘He can’t stop gushing about her. They’re like two teenagers in love.’
It was said that the couple ‘don’t want a big fancy shindig this time around’ and preferred ‘a small commitment ceremony in front of just family and close friends.’
Shatner’s first two wives, whom he divorced, were Canadian actress Gloria Rand and producer Peter Lafferty’s daughter Marcy Lafferty.
He married his third wife Nerine Kidd in 1997, two years before she drowned tragically in their swimming pool at the age of 40 with alcohol and Valium in her system.
In his memoirs, he described Kidd as an alcoholic who was drunk at 8am the day after their wedding and whose repeated rehab stints failed to result in lasting sobriety.
Shatner’s romance with Elizabeth Martin began after she joined the hundreds of well-wishers who wrote to him after Kidd’s death, and he recognized her name because of their mutual involvement in horse circles, according to his autobiography.
They tied the knot in 2001, and in the years since they got back together after their short-lived split, he has showered her with praise, for example calling her ‘the zest of life’ in a 2023 interview with The Mirror.
Shatner is the proud father of three daughters, Leslie, 67, Lisabeth, 64, and Melanie, 61, all of whom he welcomed with his first wife.
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