Michael J. Fox reveals the tips he used to hide the diagnosis of Parkinson in New Doc
He is not made public with his heartbreaking condition for seven years.
Michael J. Fox talked a lot about her Fight with Parkinson's disease Since he was made public with his diagnosis in 1998, but in a new documentary, he opens about the previous seven years, which he spent trying to hide his symptoms.
In Still: a movie Michael J. Fox —What was created on January 20 at the Sundance Film Festival and should be released by Apple TV + later this year - the Back to the future Star says he tried a number of things to prevent people from discovering his condition.
Read the rest to find out how Fox managed the devastating diagnosis before revealing it.
Read this then: Michael J. Fox says that having Parkinson is "nothing" compared to that .
Alcohol was one of Fox's initial adaptation mechanisms.
The new film, directed by the winner of an Oscar Davis Guggenheim (Who won for A disturbing truth In 2007), highlighted the years that Fox, now aged 61, has spent trying to face his diagnosis before presenting himself on this subject. "There were times when I went:" There is no way to go out "," he said in the doc.
Fox continued to work throughout this period, co-star in films like The American president (1995) and Mars attack! (1996), and direct the overall distribution of Spin city , which ran on ABC from 1996 to 2002. (Fox finally left the show and was replaced by Charlie Sheen .)
"I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what was going to happen," said Fox about his alcohol consumption. "What if I could just have four glasses of wine and maybe a blow?"
Fox says he was a "virtuoso" with regard to his drug consumption.
"I have become a virtuoso of the handling of drug use so that I culminate exactly at the right time and in the right place," he said in the Doc, concerning his use of dopamine pills, which can help reduce tremors And the stiffness associated with the degenerative cerebral disorder. Fox says he took the medication "like the Halloween smarts".
Although taking medication stimulating dopamine "not preventing or will stop the progression of Parkinson's disease, it could Help avoid early symptoms Disorder, explains Healthline.
"The therapeutic value, comfort - none of them was the reason why I took these pills," he admits. "There was only one reason: to hide."
He tried other tips to keep his condition under the wraps.
In the years immediately following his diagnosis, Fox says he was buried at work and has traveled as much as he could.
"You cannot pretend to the house that you do not have a parkinson because you are right there," he shares in the doc. "If I am in the world, I face other people and they don't know I have it." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
When he was on the set, he held accessories whenever possible, in order to hide his trembling hands, he also reveals in the documentary.
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Fox has now been sober for 30 years.
In an episode in 2022 of actor Mike Birbiglia podcast Work , Fox called for years between the diagnosis of his parkinson and the decision to make public "a long trip to the desert". And in 2018, he said People that these are the words of his wife, Tracy Pollan , that encouraged him to become sober in 1992.
Finding her passed out on the sofa at home after a bertus, beer overturned on the ground, she asked: "Is that what you want to be?" Before leaving the room.
"I was definitely an alcoholic. But I went 30 years without a drink," he said in the new documentary. "Some people would consider the news of my illness as an end. [But] it was really a start."
In 2000, Fox started the Foundation Michael J. Fox , which helps to finance the search for Parkinson and the patient defender.
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