Kathy Bates is clapping back at critics who say her 100-pound weight loss was a result of Ozempic.

The 77-year-old “Matlock” star, who shed the pounds gradually over a seven-year period in an effort to manage her Type 2 diabetes, told Variety she bristles when people dismiss the hard work she put in to get healthy.

“People say, 'Well, it was the Ozempic.’ F--- you, it was the Ozempic! It took me years to do this. I got this diagnosis about diabetes — my father died of it; his mother died of it; one of my sisters is in peril. When they said ‘diabetes,’ I figured out what to do to slowly, over years, to lose the weight."

“And then when Ozempic came along, I was able to lose the last 15 to 20 pounds and keep it off,” she said.

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