“It’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see. My left eye is not the greatest.
“There’s hope and encouragement that it will be okay, but I’m kind of stuck in the moment, because I can do something like this, but going into the studio and recording, I don’t know. Because I can’t see a lyric for start.”
Sir Elton John has revealed his eyesight has been affected by an infection. Photo / Getty Images
“We’re taking initiative to try and get it better. But at the moment, that’s really what I’m concentrating on. It’s never fortunate for anything like this to happen,” he said.
“It kind of floored me, and I can’t see anything. I can’t read anything, I can’t watch anything.”
Despite his health woes, the music legend – who is the subject of an upcoming Disney+ documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late – said he still feels “lucky”.
“I’m the luckiest man in the world.
“I’m so proud of the documentary, I’m proud of my sons, I’m proud of my attitude toward myself and what’s going on. I’m just very lucky and very grateful.
“I am an iron man, because I’ve been through so much and come out the other side.”
“Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye. I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye,” he wrote in September.
“I am so grateful for the excellent team of doctors and nurses and my family, who have taken such good care of me over the last several weeks. I have been quietly spending the summer recuperating at home, and am feeling positive about the progress I have made in my healing and recovery thus far.”
