Jeremy Piven's Been Fish-Free For 10 Months But Is Still Fishy

Jeremy Piven says that he has been fish-free for the past 10 months.

And no, we ain’t talking about that kinda tuna. (Are you kidding? The Pivert can’t keep his hands off a piece of “filet-o-fish” for more than 5 minutes.)

Still embroiled in a battle with the Actors Equity, who have been – and rightly so – suspicious of Pivert’s “mercury poisoning,” the actor attempts to garner sympathy by adding, “What basically happens is when you work your whole life without stopping like I’ve done, you end up in the hospital. Basically, I had a cardiologist say your body is trying to catch up and it can’t. I had a resting heart rate of 47, something called arrhythmia, along with all the mercury poisoning.”

And then he tries to top it off with a little bit of environmentalism: “By the way, for the record, it’s the not the fish’s fault. It’s a man-made problem. It’s all the mercury being dumped. Women shouldn’t eat tuna, especially when you’re pregnant.”

The whole thing sounds fishy to us…and no, it’s not his beard.

[Image via WENN.]