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Christopher Cross Calls the COVID-19 Battle That Left Him Paralyzed ‘The Darkest of Times’
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSinger-songwriter Christopher Cross, best know for his late–‘70s hits “Ride Like the Wind” and “Sailing,” opened up about his recent battle with COVID-19, calling the experience “the darkest days of my life.” He was paralyzed and in intensive care for 10 days, he tells Serena Altschul for this weekend’s installment of “CBS Sunday Morning.”“There was some, you know, come-to-Jesus moments or whatever, where I was looking for any help I could get to through this, to get out of this thing. Because I wasn’t sure,” Cross says in his first television interview since battling the virus.Cross, 69, was diagnosed after a trip to Mexico City.