“Back to the Future” star Michael J. Fox reassured followers that he was alive and nicely after NCS printed a deceptive article about his death.
“Michael is doing great,” his rep told TMZ Wednesday. “He was at PaleyFest yesterday. He was on stage and was giving interviews.”
Additionally, a NCS spokesperson apologized after a video titled “Remembering the life of actor Michael J. Fox” was printed.
“The package was published in error; we have removed it from our platforms and send our apologies to Michael J. Fox and his family,” the rep advised the outlet.
A rep for Fox, 64, wasn’t instantly obtainable to Page Six for remark.
On Tuesday, the actor stopped by the PaleyFest LA hosted on the Dolby Theatre to be a part of the Apple TV+ collection “Shrinking” for his or her Season 3 wrap social gathering.
The “Spin City” alum joined Jason Segel and Harrison Ford as a visitor star within the forthcoming season, which was launched in January and concludes on Wednesday.
In current years, Fox has taken a step again from bigger on-camera roles after he was identified with Parkinson’s illness in 1991.
At the time, he was solely 29 years outdated, and he waited till 1998 to announce his situation.
Parkinson’s illness is outlined as “a progressive movement disorder of the nervous system,” which in the end leads “to symptoms that include problems with movement, tremor, stiffness, and impaired balance,” according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Over the years, Fox has opened up about battling the illness and revealed how he initially ran away from it when he was first identified.
“Honestly, my first reaction was, ‘You’ve made a mistake — you’re not aware of who I am,’” he advised Closer Weekly in 2018.
“I responded by drinking too much,” he mentioned. “I drank to obliterate it, to make it go away. [But the abuse] caused tension in my marriage, which had always been good and has been amazing since.”
Fox is married to Tracy Pollan, whom he wed in 1988, and the couple shares a son, Michael, 36, twin daughters Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances Fox, each 31, and a 24-year-old daughter, Esmé Annabelle.
Additionally, Fox vulnerably shared he had accepted he would likely not make it to 80 years outdated, saying in a 2023 “CBS Sunday Morning” interview that his illness will “make the call” when it’s his time to die.
At the time, the “Family Ties” alum admitted that it was “gettin’ tougher” day by day.