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