Elton John not too long ago gave a well being replace with a quip about his previous medical procedures.
The music legend’s comment got here up throughout a speech Tuesday on the New York Movie Pageant premiere of the upcoming Disney+ documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late.”
“To be honest with you, there’s not much of me left,” he advised the group, based on Folks journal. “I don’t have tonsils, adenoids or an appendix. I don’t have a prostate.”
“I don’t have a right hip or a left knee or a right knee,” he continued. “In fact, the only thing left to me is my left hip. But I’m still here. And I can’t thank you [enough], you’re the people that made me.”
The “Rocket Man” singer then thanked his husband, David Furnish, and their two sons for making him “the happiest man in the world.”
He additionally carried out “Tiny Dancer” on the premiere, and at one level within the night time shared a heartfelt observe in regards to the pleasure he feels in his present stage of life.
The 77-year-old, who has publicly mentioned his early struggles with dependancy, talked about getting sober in 1990 and discovering “complete and utter happiness and bliss” when he met Furnish a couple of years later and have become a dad.
John, a prostate most cancers survivor, revealed earlier this month that he was recovering from a extreme eye an infection that triggered him to have “limited vision in one eye.”
He said at the time that he had been “quietly spending the summer recuperating at home.”
The singer referenced the eye infection days later at a screening of the “Never Too Late” documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6.
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“I’m having the best time of my life — except this fucking eye. I wish I could see you,” he quipped on the time, based on Selection.
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