Michael J. Fox falls on stage during ‘Back to the Future’ panel
nypost.comdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 29 in 1991 — seemed to lose his balance and was seen tripping over his feet.Thankfully, a couch softened the blow with the actor falling onto the furniture rather than the hard ground of the stage.
Fox bounced back up from the couch mere moments later, showing the crowd that he was OK and uninjured.Fox, who played Marty McFly in the “Back to the Future” trilogy, went on to take questions from fans at the convention along with Lloyd, who played Dr.
Emmett “Doc” Brown, and Wilson, who portrayed Biff Tannen.The incident comes shortly after the retired actor shared that his battle with Parkinson’s has gotten “harder.”“I’m not gonna be 80,” Fox said in an episode of “CBS Sunday Morning.”“I’m not gonna lie.
It’s gettin’ hard, it’s gettin’ harder. It’s gettin’ tougher. Every day it’s tougher,” the “Family Ties” alum shared.Fox also said that he had undergone surgery to remove a benign tumor on his spine — but the surgery “messed up” his walking, and in turn, he started to “break” other parts of his body, including his arm, elbow, face and hand.He added that the “big killer” of Parkinson’s is “falling.”“You don’t die from Parkinson’s.
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