800-Pound RI Man Booted from Hospital For Ordering Pizza is Moving to Ohio

The 800 pound Cranston man who gained notoriety last week after he said he was kicked out of the hospital for ordering a pizza is getting ready to move out of state.

John Assanti said in a YouTube video posted on Sunday that he has some big news.

“I got a place willing to accept me,” he said. “It’s somewhere in Ohio and it’s a facility specifically for bariatric patients.”

Assanti said that the facility has been in touch with a social worker here and plans are underway to have him moved in the coming days.

Additionally, Assanti said that if anyone thinks he or his father is getting money ”out of this is completely insane.”

“My life right now is in jeopardy, I am close to death,” he said. “I need to turn that around and get the necessary help wherever it might be from whoever it may be.”

Assanti became the subject of viral clickbait fodder last week after reports that he was booted from Rhode Island Hospital for ordering a pizza against the doctors’ orders.

Assanti, 33, managed to lose about 20 pounds while at the hospital but he reportedly had broken the rules several times and the pizza delivery was the last straw.

Hospital officials did not comment on the matter, citing patient confidentiality rules.

After his release, Assanti’s father loaded his son into the back of an SUV where he was seen on local TV news stations pleading for help.

Soon, Assanti’s story became national news with many people sympathizing with him.

But YouTube videos showing Assanti in 2012 berating hospital staff and other videos, including one in which he boasted about taxpayers supporting him titled “F--- the Tax Payers,” cost Assanti some public empathy.

Assanti found himself at Kent County Hospital in Warwick midweek last week.

This story was updated on Oct. 13 at 11:10 a.m. to remove a sentence that stated the hospital issued a release, which it did not. We regret the error.