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Michael J. Fox said living with Parkinson's disease is "getting harder" and speculated about how long he might live.
Fox opened up during an interview with Jane Pauley on "CBS Sunday Morning." Though the interview will air Sunday, select excerpts from the conversation were released Friday. The actor, 61, was first diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 when he was 29.
The host asked Fox if he broke his bones falling, to which he replied that falling is a "big killer with Parkinson's."
"It's falling, and aspirating food, and getting pneumonia. All these subtle ways that get ya."
"You don't die from Parkinson's. You die with Parkinson's," Fox said. "So I've been thinking about the mortality of it. I'm not gonna be 80."
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Fox opened up during an interview with Jane Pauley on "CBS Sunday Morning." Though the interview will air Sunday, select excerpts from the conversation were released Friday. The actor, 61, was first diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 when he was 29.
The host asked Fox if he broke his bones falling, to which he replied that falling is a "big killer with Parkinson's."
"It's falling, and aspirating food, and getting pneumonia. All these subtle ways that get ya."
"You don't die from Parkinson's. You die with Parkinson's," Fox said. "So I've been thinking about the mortality of it. I'm not gonna be 80."
Michael J. Fox says his Parkinson's disease is 'getting tougher' and doesn't think he'll live to be 80
Michael J. Fox said he's broken several bones and has had spinal surgery during an episode of "CBS Sunday Morning."
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