On the occasion of the Cosmic Con, organized in New York this Sunday, October 9, 2022, Michael J. Fox, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, found Christopher Lloyd.
Since 2006, thousands of comic book, cinema, video game and manga fans have gathered at the famous New York Comic Con. This Sunday, October 9, 2022, the organization of this event has decided to highlight the trilogy Back to the future which will have marked entire generations. On this occasion, the two main actors were present: Christopher Lloyd, who played the character Doc and Michael J. Fox, aka Marty, reunited to the delight of fans of the trilogy. Aged 61, the latter moved lovers of Back to the future. Indeed, the actor has suffered for many years from Parkinson’s disease.
Thus, this evil prevents him from moving properly and it is with difficulty that he took his former partner in his arms. A moving sequence for those who have never hidden their illness from their audience. Indeed, it was in 1998 that the actor learned that he was sick. Thus, during this Comic Con, he wanted to thank all his fans for their support: “You gave me my whole life. The best thing that ever happened in my life was this thing. Parkinson’s is a gift. I told people it was a gift and they said, ‘You’re crazy.’ I say, ‘yeah, but it’s a gift that keeps bringing me.’ But it’s a gift and I wouldn’t trade it for the world… It’s not about what I got, it’s about what I received (with this)”.
Michael J. Fox: “I’m a really happy guy”
For more than thirty years, Michael J. Fox has fought against the disease. And his mind keeps keeping him alive. In the columns ofAARP The Magazinehe explained: “I’m really a happy guy. I don’t have any morbid thoughts in my head – I am not afraid of death. At all. But as I walked through that darkness, I also got a glimpse of my stepfather, who had passed away and had always espoused gratitude, acceptance, and trust. I started noticing things I was grateful for and how others would respond to difficulties with gratitude. I have concluded that gratitude makes optimism lasting (…) If you don’t think you have anything to be grateful for, keep looking. Because you don’t just get optimism. You can’t wait for things to go well and be grateful for it.”
The actor keeps a morale in all tests
The actor of Back to the future so don’t get discouraged : “Disease is that thing that’s attached to my life – it’s not the driver. And because I have money, I have access to things that other people don’t. I wouldn’t start not compare my experience to that of a working man who gets Parkinson’s disease and has to quit his job and find a new way to live. So I’m really lucky.”, he explains. The actor even created the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which he co-founded in 2000 to help finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease : “Patients are the key. They now guide our program and have been essential, for example, in our promising work to try to find biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease, which would allow us to identify the disease in people before symptoms are evident. , and proactively treat and get rid of it.”