I'm sure it was a struggle for him to keep any amount of fat on his body, suddenly he's a meatball.

Yeah exactly. That's why I think there has to be some drug or steroid use involved. Or just the drinking, he used to not drink because he was devoutly muslim, he said in the OP. Drinking can do that to people, and probably changed his appetite too. And he obviously worked out a ton.

It's just not possible another person learned all his voice mannerisms and storytelling style and so on... it has to be him, clearly. But he's changed so much in such a short time compared to how stable his look was before, it's just unnerving. But a lot of people get fat when they become drunks too, which he kind of implies in the OP.

But it is weird how it's not mentioned at all. Maybe he's still coping with it himself