Michael J. Fox opens up about outliving his original Parkinson’s disease diagnosis from 1998: ‘Life’s going to be what you make it’ [Video]

19:23 EDT 10 Apr 2024 , updated 19:59 EDT 10 Apr 2024

More than 25 years after he went public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, Michael J. Fox is opening up about exceeding his doctor’s expectations.

The 62-year-old actor was first diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s at just 30 years of age in 1991, when he was filming Doc Hollywood. 

He first went public with his diagnosis in 1998, where he revealed his doctors were, ‘hopeful that Fox will be functional for at least another 10 years and maybe well into old age.’

Now more than 25 years later, Fox – who hinted at coming out of acting retirement – is still thriving, revealing to People that he has always believed in himself.

‘What I believed then and what I believe now, I might not put it in the same words, but you can do anything. Anything,’ Fox said.

‘You don’t have to follow other people’s prognostications for what life is going to …