Elton John is opening up about the debilitating infection that has left him struggling with his eyesight.
“It’s been devastating,” the 78-year-old singer told Variety in a profile released on Tuesday. “I lost my [vision in 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.”
Still, the musician acknowledged: “I’ve had the most incredible life, and there is hope.”
“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,” he said, explaining that “it’s exactly like the AIDS situation.”
“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.
