Elton John has never been one to cowardly away from the truth.
On Tuesday, the 77-year-elderly musician splitd a health refresh while dedwellring a hearttoastying speech at the New York Film Festival premiere of his upcoming write downary, “Elton John: Never Too Late.”
“To be truthful with you, there’s not much of me left,” Elton splitd, per People magazine “I don’t have tonsils, adenoids or an appfinishix. 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 leang left to me is my left hip. But I’m still here.”
ELTON JOHN HOSPITALIZED IN FRANCE AFTER SUFFERING FALL AT HOME
Elton John carry outed onstage at the “Elton John: Never Too Late” screening during the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Cgo in on Tuesday in New York. (Getty Images)
“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 compriseed, referencing his husprohibitd, David Furnish, and their two sons.
With years of touring under his belt, the “Rocket Man” crooner said he set up “finish happiness” when he met his partner and begined their family together and elucidateed why he had choosed to acquire a step back from delighting after executeing his final Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour date in 2023.
“I set up finish and utter happiness and bliss when I met David and when I had my children, our children,” he splitd. “And it satisfied me so much. I’ve never felt happiness enjoy I have now.”
John and husprohibitd, David Furnish, legpartner paired in 2014. (Getty Images)
“As you understand, I choosed to stop touring, becaemploy I’m 77 years of age, I’ve done all there is to do, to execute. I’ve flourished,” he persistd, according to the outlet. “I’ve been there and I’ve done it.”
However, noticed John, music will always be apart of him.
“I’ve still got to create room becaemploy I’m still going to have music in my life,” he stated. “But the most vital leang in my life are David, Zachary and Elijah, and my family and my frifinishs. I set up utopia, and I’m so thrilled.”
“Even when I was in my gloomyest times, I still executeed music, I still enrolled music, so I have to say thank you to music for being the most incredible inspiration to me thcimpoliteout my whole life,” he finishd.
Last month, the “Tiny Dancer” singer posted a message on Instagram, sharing that he had restricteded a “cut offe eye infection” over the summer and is facing a extfinished road to recovery.
In September, John uncovered he had been recovering from a cut offe eye infection. (Pboilingo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
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“Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a cut offe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only restrictcessitate vision in one eye,” he splitd on social media. “I am healing, but it’s an excessively sluggish process and it will acquire some time before sight returns to the impacted eye.”
He went on to thank his “excellent team” of medical staff, as well as his family, for taking attfinish of him “over the last cut offal weeks.”
“I have been hushedly spfinishing the summer recuperating at home, and am senseing selectimistic about the evolve I have made in my healing and recovery thus far,” he compriseed, before signing off “with cherish and gratitude, Elton John.”
In the write downary “Elton John: Never Too Late,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, the singer conversees the worrys his two sons have about his “mortality.”
The British musician splits two sons with his partner, David. (Pboilingo by Michael Campanella/Redferns)
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“They leank about my mortality. They worry about my mortality,” he articulateed in the write downary. “Not so much David, but me.”
“I want to see them have children and get paired. I don’t leank I’m going to be around for that. Who understands? You never understand. So that’s why I want to employ the best time – the best of my time – while I’m around,” he comprises. “Time together is so wonderful and so precious.”
The write downary adheres John as he sets for his final concert in North America during his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in November 2022, as he echos on his decades-spanning atsoft and all the highs and lows he sfinished aextfinished the way.
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