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Rudy Giuliani spent his first evening out with his family after a hospitalization earlier this month at the Italian food hall Eataly in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The 81-year-old said he convinced his family to dine at the chain restaurant “after some persuasion”
The former New York City mayor was hospitalized on May 3 after contracting viral pneumonia while returning from Paris
Rudy Giuliani spent his first evening out with his family after he was hospitalized earlier this month for viral pneumonia at the Italian marketplace Eataly in West Palm Beach, Fla.
“You know how hard I’ve been trying to get people to go back there since you and I went there?” Giuliani said on a Monday, May 18, episode of his online talk show, America’s Mayor Live!, addressing someone off camera.
“Some of these people in Palm Beach are a little…” the former New York City mayor added, turning his nose up with his finger. He defended his choice of restaurant by describing it as “a very high-level chain,” noting it has locations across the globe, including in Italy.
Giuliani, who will turn 82 this month, said he convinced his family to dine at the establishment “after some persuasion,” and that the experience “was great for my morale.”
“The food was great,” he said. “We had too much, and we had to bring it home. We just had a wonderful time.”
Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney who has since been disbarred, was hospitalized in Florida earlier this month after contracting pneumonia while returning from a recent trip to Paris.
His spokesperson, Ted Goodman, announced Giuliani’s illness and hospitalization on May 3, writing on social media that the former Republican presidential candidate was in “critical but stable condition.”
“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” Goodman wrote. He later said that Giuliani’s condition was linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, which had left Giuliani with lasting health problems.
Dr. Maria Ryan, Giuliani’s primary care provider, told Fox News one day after he was hospitalized that a priest had been called to Giuliani’s bedside to read him his last rites. Giuliani was transferred out of the hospital’s intensive care unit on May 6, after three days in the ICU.
“The power of prayer is working,” Goodman said at the time.
On his latest episode, Giuliani said he left the hospital on a Saturday, seemingly referring to Saturday, May 9.
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In his first broadcast following his hospitalization, Giuliani said he is “in the middle of making a very, very full and complete recovery.”
“I feel 100 percent, but I’m probably not,” he said on a May 13 episode of The Rudy Giuliani Show. The same day, on an episode of America’s Mayor Live!, Giuliani said he had had a “significant spiritual experience” while in the hospital.
“I don’t think I was unconscious, but I was in a state of like, you know, out of it. I would equate it to a dream,” he said, describing a vision in which he was standing in a line of other people. “I can’t say I was headed for heaven.”
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