Michael J. Fox Admits He’s Struggled With Optimism Amid Battle With Parkinson’s

Michael J. Fox, the “Back to the Future” star, admitted that he is having difficulty staying optimistic in the face of his battle with Parkinson’s disease.

“I feel sometimes I do not want to be selling people the optimism thing because people have tough lives. Depression is real, and things happen to them that I can not even comprehend. They make my stuff seem like Band-Aids and skinned knees,” Fox said, according to Fox News on April 30. “So I don’t want to be saying, ‘Cheer up!’ Some stuff sucks.”

He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 29 in 1991.

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