Sad News About Michael J. Fox

“I Hate It. It Sucks. But It Didn’t Defeat Me”

Fox is candid about the toll of Parkinson’s: constant pain, endless effort to move, and the exhaustion of daily life. “It’s tough to get up in the morning and keep going,” he admits. “I hate it. It sucks. But it didn’t defeat me.”

Optimism for him isn’t blind cheerfulness but discipline. He refuses to live the worst-case scenario twice—once in imagination, and again in reality. Instead, he focuses on what can be done today: showing up for family, funding research, and finding humor in small moments.