Paul Hogan looks happy and healthier as he jets back to Los Angeles following Christmas Down Under

Paul Hogan looked very fragile when he touched down back in Australia last month to celebrate Christmas with his family.

But on Monday, the actor, 83, looked happier and healthier as he returned to Los Angeles after spending time Down Under.

The Crocodile Dundee star, who arrived at Sydney airport in a wheelchair following a rib injury, carried a duffel bag as he strolled through the airport before his flight to Los Angeles.

Hogan, famous for his hard-hitting appearances in the popular film franchise, was wearing black pants, a bright blue button-up shirt and a black blazer when he checked in for his flight.

She completed her look with comfortable black sneakers and kept a low profile in dark sunglasses.

It comes just weeks after Hogan appeared very frail when he landed in Sydney in a wheelchair, pushed by a caretaker.

The Flipper star got up from the chair without assistance but struggled to walk as he clung to his side and appeared to be in agony due to his rib injury.

The actor has battled muscle wasting and dramatic weight loss after being diagnosed with retroperitoneal fibrosis.

Discussing his condition during an interview with a current affair Host Tracy Grimshaw, the last to leave Nine’s flagship show after 17 years, Hogan revealed that the benign growth wrapped around his abdominal aorta and put pressure on his kidney.

He admitted that the devastating impact on his health has left him pining to leave the $3.5 million Venice Beach home he shares with his 24-year-old son Chance and return to the relative tranquility of his home country.

‘[I’ve] been better. I had a problem in the aorta in the kidney and the treatment fixed it, but it made me shrink, ”she said.

‘I just… I’ve lost all my body fat and all the muscles shrunk and strength has returned, because it left me weak. I have Chance open jars for me.

She added: ‘Some of my dieting friends hate me because I try to eat everything greasy and greasy you can think of. Everything they are not allowed to have. I can’t put an ounce.

The actor was prescribed corticosteroids to reduce growth, but now he needs to regain his strength after the health scare drastically changed his physique.

Hogan said the steroid treatment was worse than the disease.

‘Shrink your muscles and [they’re] It’s supposed to make you fat, but I got skinnier and skinnier and skinnier,” Hogan revealed.

“Now I’m in the business of trying to get a little fat… because you get too cold when you don’t have body fat.”

Hogan now has a pacemaker in place and says he is ‘held together by a rope’ as he tries to return to full health.

The Golden Globe winner said he always “maintained” his fitness until he was 79 and admits he is lucky to have been healthy for so long.

He was still in shape. It would still take out most of the 40-year-olds,’ he said. “And then I turned 80 and it’s lovely to say ‘turning 80 is not for sissies’ because things start to fall apart.”

Hogan has previously said he’s desperate to return home to Australia as his health worsens, but says he can’t leave his son Chance, his son with ex-wife and former Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski, alone in California. .

“I’m not in the place where I should be, but I can’t complain about anything,” he said.

‘I’ve had such a gifted life. So many wonderful things have happened to me without deserving them so I shouldn’t be complaining, but yes, ideally I would rather be back in Sydney because I miss the rest of my family there.

Hogan recently revealed that he had been “homesick for years” after the Venice Beach neighborhood surrounding his home became a magnet for homeless people.

“I miss the people, the atmosphere, and there’s something you just can’t put your finger on, but there’s something about Australia that’s friendlier and more relaxed,” he said. the daily telegraph.

“He never takes himself seriously, there’s no arrogance like in other places.”

He moved to Los Angeles in 2005 with his then love interest and former co-star Linda Kozlowski, whom he met on the set of Crocodile Dundee.

He left his first wife, Noelene, to pursue a love affair with the much younger Linda, now 64, and they married in 1990.

In 2014, she filed for divorce, but they are said to still be on good terms and live in the same neighborhood while co-parenting their son.

In an interview with Sunrise last year, Hogan said he was “desperate” to return to Australia and leave his life in the United States behind.

“I’m desperately homesick,” he said. “I live in Los Angeles County, which has 10 million people and half of them have covid. So am I nostalgic? Bet your life.