“Back to nan Future” prima Michael J. Fox reassured fans that he was live and good aft CNN published a misleading article astir his death.
“Michael is doing great,” his rep told TMZ Wednesday. “He was astatine PaleyFest yesterday. He was connected shape and was giving interviews.”
Additionally, a CNN spokesperson apologized aft a video titled “Remembering nan life of character Michael J. Fox” was published.
“The package was published successful error; we person removed it from our platforms and nonstop our apologies to Michael J. Fox and his family,” nan rep told nan outlet.
A rep for Fox, 64, wasn’t instantly disposable to Page Six for comment.
On Tuesday, nan character stopped by nan PaleyFest LA hosted astatine nan Dolby Theatre to subordinate nan Apple TV+ bid “Shrinking” for their Season 3 wrap party.
The “Spin City” alum joined Jason Segel and Harrison Ford arsenic a impermanent prima successful nan forthcoming season, which was released successful January and concludes connected Wednesday.
In caller years, Fox has taken a measurement backmost from larger on-camera roles aft he was diagnosed pinch Parkinson’s illness successful 1991.
At nan time, he was only 29 years old, and he waited until 1998 to denote his condition.
Parkinson’s illness is defined arsenic “a progressive activity upset of nan tense system,” which yet leads “to symptoms that see problems pinch movement, tremor, stiffness, and impaired balance,” according to nan National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Over nan years, Fox has opened up astir battling nan illness and revealed really he initially ran distant from it erstwhile he was first diagnosed.
“Honestly, my first guidance was, ‘You’ve made a correction — you’re not alert of who I am,’” he told Closer Weekly successful 2018.
“I responded by drinking excessively much,” he said. “I drank to obliterate it, to make it spell away. [But nan abuse] caused hostility successful my marriage, which had ever been bully and has been astonishing since.”
Fox is joined to Tracy Pollan, whom he wed successful 1988, and nan mates shares a son, Michael, 36, copy daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances Fox, some 31, and a 24-year-old daughter, Esmé Annabelle.
Additionally, Fox vulnerably shared he had accepted he would apt not make it to 80 years old, saying successful a 2023 “CBS Sunday Morning” question and reply that his illness will “make nan call” when it’s his clip to die.
At nan time, nan “Family Ties” alum admitted that it was “gettin’ tougher” each day.