Just weeks after telling the world that an infection left him partially blinded, legendary pop superstar Sir Elton John revealed another shocking admission about his waning health.
This week, the 77-year-old musician shared a health update while delivering a speech at the New York Film Festival premiere of his upcoming documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late.”
“To be honest with you, there’s not much of me left,” Elton told People magazine. “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. In fact, the only thing left to me is my left hip. But I’m still here.”
“I can’t thank you [enough], you’re the people that made me. I want to thank David and Zachary and Elijah for making me the happiest man in the world,” he added, referencing his husband, David Furnish, and their two sons.
Crediting his family for getting him through his recent health scares, the “Rocket Man” singer said he found “complete happiness” when he met his partner and started their family together and explained why he had decided to take a step back from entertaining after playing his final Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour date in 2023.
“I found complete and utter happiness and bliss when I met David and when I had my children, our children,” he shared. “And it satisfied me so much. I’ve never felt happiness like I have now.”
Last month, the famed “Tiny Dancer” singer-songwriter posted a message on social media, sharing that he had contracted a “severe eye infection” over the summer and is facing a long road to recovery.
“Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye,” he shared on social media. “I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye.”
John went on to thank his “excellent team” of medical staff, as well as his family, for taking care of him “over the last several weeks.”
“I have been quietly spending the summer recuperating at home, and am feeling positive about the progress I have made in my healing and recovery thus far,” he added, before signing off “with love and gratitude, Elton John.”
In the documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, the performer discusses the concerns his two sons have about his “mortality.”
“They think about my mortality. They worry about my mortality,” he expressed in the documentary. “Not so much David, but me.”
“I want to see them have children and get married. I don’t think I’m going to be around for that. Who knows? You never know. So that’s why I want to use the best time — the best of my time — while I’m around,” he adds. “Time together is so wonderful and so precious.”