Michael J. Fox Had ‘7 Years Of Denial’ About Parkinson’s: ‘I Told Very Few People’

Michael J. Fox received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday. When he took the podium to accept the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic work, he revealed keeping his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis secret — for years. The 61-year-old was first diagnosed with the degenerative brain condition in 1991 when he was 29, according to People. He recalled Saturday entering “seven years of denial” and “trying to make sense of it all,” only for his illness to spur a newfound purpose. Advertisement “I told very few people, and they kept my secret,” said Fox… Read Full Article