Amy Schumer responds with humor as she’s linked to tampon shortage: ‘I don’t even have a uterus’

Amy Schumer on Thursday responded with humor to a report linking her to a nationwide scarcity of tampons.

On Wednesday, the New York Submit printed a report titled, ‘Why Amy Schumer is getting blamed for the nationwide tampon scarcity,’ noting {that a} spokesperson for Procter & Gamble advised Time that gross sales for the product spiked 7.7 % after Schumer started showing in Tampax commercials in July of 2020.

The comedian, 41, took a screenshot of the article with the caption, ‘Whoa I don’t actually have a uterus,’ in reference to her revelation final fall that she’d had her uterus and appendix eliminated to fight endometriosis.

The newest: Amy Schumer, 41, on Thursday responded with humor to a report linking her to a nationwide scarcity of tampons. She was snapped on The Tonight Present in March 

The Trainwreck actress acquired numerous responses from well-known followers in response to the joke, as broadcaster Katie Couric wrote, ‘What???????’

TV host Padma Lakshmi wrote, ‘LOL,’ with a hysterical emoji, whereas actress Kerry Washington stated, ‘I knew it.’

Schumer, who was a co-host on the Oscars in March, opened up about her well being state of affairs in an Instagram clip final September that was filmed by her partner, Chris Fischer, 42, as she was in a hospital recovering from the process.

‘So, it is the morning after my surgical procedure for endometriosis and my uterus is out,’ the Emmy-winning star, who shares son Gene, three, with Fischer, stated within the clip. ‘The physician discovered 30 spots of endometriosis that he eliminated. He eliminated my appendix as a result of the endometriosis had attacked it.’

The comedian took a screenshot of the article with the caption, ‘Whoa I don’t actually have a uterus,’ in reference to her previous revelation that she’d had her uterus and appendix eliminated to fight endometriosis

Schumer took half in a promotional marketing campaign for Tampax in 2020 

She continued: ‘There was loads, loads of blood in my uterus and I am, you realize, sore and I’ve some, like, fuel pains.’

The Lady with the Decrease Again Tattoo writer suggested her followers within the caption, ‘If in case you have actually painful durations, you could have #endometriosis.’

Schumer final Halloween took to social media with a shot through which she was donning a blue bodysuit that learn Tampax as she stepped out in New York Metropolis.

Schumer stated within the put up, ‘I haven’t got a uterus, however nothing can cease me from carrying Tampax, okay?’

Tampax’s official Instagram web page reposted the clip with the caption: ‘When @amyschumer advised us she was going to be a bloodsucker for #Halloween, this isn’t what we had been anticipating…’