LOS ANGELES () - Comedian Bernie Mac has been hospitalized for pneumonia in Chicago but is expected to be released soon, his publicist aforementioned on Friday.
Mac, 50, suffered from sarcoidosis, a tissue rubor, but his publicist, Danica Smith, aforesaid his unwellness has been in remittance since 2005 and the bout of pneumonia is unrelated.
"Mr. Mac is responding well to treatment and will be released shortly," Smith aforesaid in a statement.
"He asked that his privacy and that of his mob is respected while he gets well," she aforementioned.
Mac, a comic who has always stayed close to his aboriginal Chicago, starred last year in the films "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Transformers," and in "The Bernie Mac Show" on the U.S. television network Fox from 2001 to 2006.
Mac was nominated for two Emmys and 2 Golden Globes for his performances in "The Bernie Mac Show."
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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