Music legend Sir Elton John has revealed that he’s still standing and not “giving up hope”, despite losing sight in his right eye.
The British singer and song-writer started to lose his sight after picking up an eye infection while on holiday in France last year.
The 78-year-old told Variety in a recent interview that he had now lost all vision in that right eye, and his left eye was also poor.
“It’s been devastating,” John told Variety. “Because I lost my right eye and my left eye’s not so good, the last 15 months have been challenging for me because I haven’t been able to see anything, watch anything, read anything.”
Despite the problems with this eyes, he said he had not given up hope on recovering his vision.
“I’ve had the most incredible life, and there is hope,” he said. “I’ve just gotta be patient, that someday science will help me with this one. Once they help me with this one, I’ll be fine.
“You mustn’t give up hope, you must be stoic, you must be strong and you must always try and batter the door down to try and improve things.”
He said he had to just “grin and bear it”, although it did get him down sometimes.
He said he had been getting support and love from a number of friends, including Mr Paul McCartney, Mr Pete Townshend, Mr Mick Jagger, and Mr Keith Richards.
“It just makes my day,” he said.
