MICHAEL J Fox secretly had surgery to remove a "painful" tumor in his spine in 2018. The 59-year-old Family Ties actor - who is battling Parkinson's - revealed he spent four months learning how to walk again.
Doctors said Michael's noncancerous tumor - which was causing him "horrible pain" - was "growing rapidly". "I was heading for paralysis if I didn’t get it operated on,” the father-of-four told People.
The tumor “was constricting the [spinal] cord, so they had to be very careful in removing it so they wouldn’t do further damage,” he explained.
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