Thomas William Selleck is known for his role as private detective Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum P.I. (1980-1988) and Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady. Before that, he had a recurring role as Lance White, the naive and lovable sidekick of Jim Rockford (played by James Garner) on The Rockford Files. He played Sheriff Jesse Stone in the television series based on the novels by Robert B. Parker. Since 2010, he has starred as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the crime drama Blue Bloods.
Tom Selleck has enjoyed great success for decades, but the actor has battled joint pain for years.
Reports from friends and colleagues of Tom Selleck say that the former action star was tortured daily while on set.
Tom’s days as a car-jumping-diving-diving action star are in the past. ~Costar.
Tom was examined by doctors and learned techniques to relieve the pain, but it was an illness that did not go away. “I’m learning to adapt to it as best I can,” he said in a recent interview.
The pain was sometimes so bad, Tom couldn’t perform his own stunts, forcing a stuntman to step in. Sometimes, stunts are also used for simple scenes such as getting in and out of a police car. Stars sometimes have to film sitting scenes.
Tom is an established professional and reports say he never complained of pain. He often jokes that he is no longer ‘Magnum PI’.
Now, some in Tom’s family are concerned that the arthritis treatment the actor is undergoing will make him blind.
