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Country Icon Alan Jackson Reveals Neurological Disease: ‘There’s No Cure’

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Two-time Grammy-winning country icon Alan Jackson is coping with a degenerative nerve condition. Jackson, 62, opened up about his Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) diagnosis in an interview with Jenna Bush Hager for “Today”. “I have this neuropathy and neurological disease,” Jackson said. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy… There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years.

RELATED: Michael J. Fox Shares Progress On Parkinson’s Disease Research He added, “And it’s getting more and more obvious. And I know I’m stumbling around on stage.

And now I’m having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone, and so I just feel very uncomfortable.” Jackson was diagnosed with CMT 10-years-ago.

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