“I was unable to attend many presentations because, as you know, I lost my sight“, declared the 77-year-old singer during a gala organized Sunday evening in London for the premiere of this show, adaptation of the successful film of the same name by David Frankel, released in 2006.
“So it's hard for me to see it, but I like to hear it and tonight it sounded good“, he added.
At the beginning of September, Elton John revealed having caught an eye infection in your right eye during a holiday in the south of France having “left with limited vision in one eye“.
“I am healing, but it is an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the affected eye“, he then added.
In November, he told the American channel ABC that he no longer saw anything in his right eye and that his “left eye was not in the best shape“.
He also indicated that his health problems prevented him from working on new musical projects.
The star with multiple hits, from “Rocket Man” to “Tiny Dancer”, closed his international farewell tour in 2023 by performing at the Glastonbury festival, before a final concert in Sweden.
