Diego Ramos Bechara editor Elton John, who’s been recovering from a severe eye infection that left him with “limited vision in one eye,” provided an update on his condition when he stopped by Variety’s studio at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
John was there to tout his new documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late,” which captures the music man’s journey to becoming one of the world’s biggest rock stars, bookended by his landmark performances at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 1975 to more than 100,000 fans and again in 2022 as the final North American stop on his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour.
John confessed he couldn’t watch the screening at the festival because of how limited his vision due to his infection: “I couldn’t really see it because of my eye, but I sensed it.
I’d seen it before. I don’t know. Seeing it with an audience is far more emotional than just sitting with a bunch of people.
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