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Mar 18, 2024 · During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in 2023, Fox explained how falling is a "big killer" for people with Parkinson's disease and revealed that he doesn't expect to live into his 80s.
- Chrissy Callahan
Apr 3, 2024 · Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 at age 29, and he explained to ET that he doesn't really look at his health the way others do -- with regards to good days and bad days or...
- Fox’s Career Was Thriving When He First Noticed Twitching in His Hand
- He Got Four Doctors’ Opinions Before Accepting His Fate
- Fox Says He Was “So Scared” During The Early Years
- He Told TV Execs About His Parkinson’s Before Spin City
- Fox Remains Optimistic That There Will Be A Cure
For seven seasons from 1982 to 1989, Fox played Alex P. Keaton on the hit sitcom Family Ties, winning three Emmys for portraying a Republican with liberal parents who were former hippies. In the midst of his television success, he also found silver screen fame in the Back to the Future trilogy as Marty McFly from 1985 to 1990. Off-screen, he marrie...
When he shared the news with Pollan, she cried out of fear. “Neither of us quite understood. We hugged each other and assured ourselves that we’d be able to deal with it,” Pollan told People. It just didn’t seem right. Fox was young and in good shape, and doctors agreed that he must have been misdiagnosed. But after four doctors had the same initia...
Accepting his newfound reality, Fox tried to move forward with his life. He leaned too heavily on drinking, before eventually course-correcting and giving up alcohol altogether. At home, his young son Sam dubbed his left hand “the shaky hand” and made a game of it, but at work, it was getting harder to hide. As photographers and reporters anxiously...
After the successful 1995 film The American President, he decided it was time to step away from films and stay in one place with a TV show. And that’s when the ABC sitcom Spin City about the New York City mayor’s office came along. Before stepping into the lead role as Mike Flaherty, he revealed his diagnosis to the network’s then-president Robert ...
From the start, his attitude about his diagnosis was clear and became his trademark: optimism mixed with reality. After four seasons on Spin City, Fox decided to step away. “One of the reasons I left Spin City was that I felt my face hardening,” he told The NewYork Times Magazine. “My movements were constricted. If you watch episodes from the last ...
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May 14, 2023 · When Michael J. Fox describes his experience with Parkinson's disease in his new documentary, he's extremely blunt. But talking with NPR this week, he hasn't lost the humor that made...
May 12, 2023 · May 12, 20235:03 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Sacha Pfeiffer. , Megan Lim. , Sarah Handel. 7-Minute Listen. Playlist. Actor Michael J. Fox talks about his documentary, Still,...
Apr 12, 2023 · Symptoms usually begin gradually and worsen over time. The Back to the Future star was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991, but has said that he was in denial of his condition...
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May 11, 2023 · Creative subversion of sensationalism. Michael J. Fox reflects on his long career in Hollywood and living with Parkinson's disease ahead of the premiere of new documentary 'Still.'.
