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Michael J. Fox (2019): "I have to think before I go"
Photo: Nicholas Hunt / Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival
Perhaps it was because George Stephanopoulos is Michael J. Fox's golf buddy: The ABC presenter managed a moving interview with the actor.
It was again about Fox's health, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991.
For almost 30 years, the now 59-year-old Hollywood star has been living with the disease with which he "made peace".
Just recently he spoke about his health in another interview.
"My short-term memory is gone," Fox told People magazine.
Numerous hobbies have disappeared for him due to the deterioration in his health.
He could no longer play the guitar or draw, Fox said.
Dancing has never been his forte and acting is now difficult: "I can still write, and fortunately I really enjoy it."
Painful realization
Doctors had diagnosed a benign tumor on Fox's spine in 2018, and his legs and limbs kept feeling numb.
The actor, who became world famous in the 1980s with the trilogy "Back to the Future", had the tumor removed and learned to walk again in physiotherapy.
Still, one morning he fell in the kitchen and broke his arm.
He then waited helplessly for the ambulance, he said now.
“It was so useless.
It was so pointless and so stupid, so avoidable, ”Fox said in the ABC conversation.
That was when he realized how vulnerable he was.
"Everyone is very careful with me and warned me to be careful," he said.
“I have to think before I go;
I can't just get up and walk. ”He finds it difficult to control his momentum and direction.
In order to deal with this painful realization, Fox says, he remembered the words of his father-in-law, who had also died: “He always said, no matter what was going on, 'It will get better, little one.
It gets better.
The last thing you run out of is the future, '”he recalled.
He lived every day with gratitude.
"I realized that when there is gratitude, there is persistent optimism."
Fox's fourth biography "No Time Like the Future" will be published in the USA these days.
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