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Elton John says he nonetheless can’t see, months after struggling a extreme eye an infection.
Speaking on stage at a gala efficiency of the “The Devil Wears Prada” musical in London on Sunday, John thanked his husband, David Furnish, saying he “has been my rock.”
“I haven’t been in a position to come to lots of the previews as a result of, as you recognize, I’ve misplaced my eyesight. So it’s arduous for me to see it. But I really like to listen to it and, boy, it sounded good tonight,” mentioned John, who wrote the rating for the present.
In an interview with “Good Morning America” final week, John mentioned the difficulty has been affecting his capability to work.
“I sadly misplaced my eyesight in my proper eye in July as a result of I had an an infection within the south of France and it’s been 4 months now since I haven’t been in a position to see, and my left eye just isn’t the best,” he mentioned.
“So, there’s hope and encouragement that will probably be OK, however… I’m sort of caught in the mean time, as a result of I can do one thing like this (the interview), however going into the studio and recording, I don’t know, as a result of I can’t see a lyric for a begin.”
John, who’s 77, first spoke publicly about his sight downside in September, when he shared on his Instagram web page that he had been “coping with a extreme eye an infection that has sadly left me with solely restricted imaginative and prescient in a single eye.”
“I’m therapeutic, nevertheless it’s an especially gradual course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye,” John wrote, earlier than thanking the “glorious group of medical doctors and nurses and my household” for taking such excellent care of him.
“I’ve been quietly spending the summer time recuperating at dwelling,” he wrote, including that he’s “feeling constructive in regards to the progress I’ve made in my therapeutic and restoration so far.”
While John formally retired from touring in 2023 after a long time of performing stay, he wrote the music for the musical of “The Devil Wears Prada.” It is predicated on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger, which was additionally became a film in 2006.
