Appearing on an episode of This Morning back in 2020 Fox spoke about this critical changing point: “I started to see what I had and I started to accept that I had Parkinson’s. Learn about Parkinson’s, learn about what it meant to my family, learn about what it meant in my life and learn to accept it.”
He also revealed that with the help of a therapist, the tools he learnt to deal with his alcoholism, also worked for dealing with his Parkinson’s.
“The tools that worked for quitting drinking work even better for [Parkinson’s], which are: acceptance and surrender. Not like, ‘I give up, I quit,’ but you just say, ‘OK, I cede you the big points,’” the actor said.
Since giving up alcohol and focusing on his Parkinson’s, Fox has made headways in working to advance clinical trials and empower other patients. The star even called himself an “expert” on what it is truly like to live with the disease.
