Behind the Diagnosis: Famous Lives, Untold tells the medical stories hidden beneath the public lives of people the world thought it knew. Each episode withholds the name until the end, focusing instead on the diagnosis that changed everything. The life you knew - until the diagnosis.

This series is inspired by the storytelling tradition popularized by Paul Harvey, whose respect for listeners and belief in the power of patience shaped Generations of radio.

Behind the Diagnosis is an independent production, created in admiration of that legacy and grounded in documented medical history and publicly available sources.

We think we know famous lives.

We know the performances, the achievements, the headlines. We know how their stories ended - or so we think.

Behind the Diagnosis: Famous Lives, Untold reveals the medical stories hidden beneath the public personas of people the world thought it understood.

Each episode tells the story of a well-known life without revealing the name, focusing instead on the illness, injury, misdiagnosis, or medical turning point that quietly shaped their path. Along the way, we explore how medicine - sometimes its breakthroughs, sometimes its blind spots - intersected with fame, timing, and the human body.

These are not gossip stories.

They are not autopsies of celebrity.

They are deeply human narratives about vulnerability, missed warning signs, medical change, and the moments when a diagnosis altered everything - for one person, and sometimes for medicine itself.

The name always comes at the end.

Because it's not just about who they were.

It's about what their body was trying to tell us.

Behind the Diagnosis: Famous Lives, Untold

The life you knew - until the diagnosis.

Hosted by Zoey Michaels, author and podcaster of The Molten Truth