Ralphie May bringing laughs to South Point

Ralphie May gets this year off to a positive start at the South Point, thanks to tabling a lot of his 2012 stand-up dates for some fourth-quarter rehab.

The comedian who has crested the 400-pound mark checked himself into an addiction center last fall, even though he claimed to have already given up smoking 4 to 5 ounces of marijuana each week.

"Once I quit everything, that's when everything came to the surface. That's when I got really crazy," May said on Adam Carolla's podcast.

"It wasn't so much the weight, it was the head," he said. Rehab helped him figure out he had post-traumatic stress disorder from a near-fatal childhood car wreck. "Instead of dealing with the trauma, I ate a lot of food to cover it up."

But he's on the mend now, doing his own podcast, "The Perfect 10" with comedian-wife Lahna Turner, as well as his stand-up.

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