Elton John is opening up in regards to the debilitating an infection that has left him struggling along with his eyesight.
“It’s been devastating,” the 78-year-old singer advised Selection in a profile launched on Tuesday. “I lost my [vision in my] right eye and my left eye’s not so good, the last 15 months have been challenging for me because I haven’t been able to see anything, watch anything, read anything.”
Nonetheless, the musician acknowledged: “I’ve had the most incredible life, and there is hope.”
“I’ve just gotta be patient that someday science will help me with this one. Once they help me with this one, I’ll be fine,” he mentioned, explaining that “it’s exactly like the AIDS situation.”
“You mustn’t give up hope, you must be stoic, you must be strong and you must always try and batter the door down to try and improve things,” he mentioned.
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John mentioned that his sickness “does get me down sometimes,” however that “you just have to grin and bear it.”
“I’ve got a wonderful family; I have two great kids; I have him,” he mentioned, gesturing to his husband, David Furnish. He additionally shared {that a} host of fellow superstar mates verify in on him.
“Paul McCartney FaceTimes me to see how I’m doing. It’s really beautiful. The love I’ve received from him and from Pete Townshend and Mick Jagger and people like that have been amazing,” he mentioned. “Or you get an email from Keith Richards saying, ‘Hello, darling, how you doing? You know we love you,’ and that’s it, but it just makes my day.”
John first talked about dropping his eyesight final 12 months, when he mentioned a “severe eye infection” had left him with “only limited vision in one eye.”
A couple of months later, he was capable of joke about his well being situation on the 2025 Golden Globes when he introduced an award alongside his good friend and fellow musician Brandi Carlile.
“I don’t know if you know, but there’s been a lot of stories going around about my regressive eyesight. I just want to reassure everybody that it’s not as bad as it seems,” he mentioned on the time. “So I’m so pleased to be here with my co-host, Rihanna!”
