Elton John, 77, admits death fears - 'I don’t know how much time I have left'

The vocalist opened up astir his ain mortality successful his caller documentary which fans watched for the archetypal clip connected Thursday night

Sitting successful a dressing country connected his last tour, Sir Elton John surveys the ­possesions surrounding him arsenic his thoughts crook to his ain mortality.

The 77-year-old popular fable says poignantly: “I wonderment what is going to hap to each of this worldly erstwhile I finish? This is the second clip of my life. I don’t cognize however overmuch clip I person left.

“You deliberation astir that much erstwhile you get to my age.

“You deliberation astir beingness and, er, and death. You think, ‘Well, I conscionable privation to beryllium wherever I privation to beryllium now.””

Sir Elton speaks candidly astir his life, and what the aboriginal whitethorn clasp arsenic helium gets older, successful a caller TV documentary. The prima has battled a drawstring of wellness problems implicit the years and had genu and hep replacements arsenic good arsenic country for prostate cancer.

He chats successful the dressing country of Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles, 47 years aft helium archetypal played determination successful beforehand of 110,000 fans. Sir Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road circuit concluded successful Stockholm successful July past twelvemonth aft 330 concerts worldwide.

He added: “I don’t person to enactment aft this. I volition enactment and bash records and putting vigor shows unneurotic but travelling takes truthful overmuch retired of you.

“It is precise tiring. I americium utilized to it. I americium a seasoned astatine it but this is wherever you commencement to deliberation astir mortality.”

The documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late, was seen for the archetypal clip by fans astatine BFI London Film Festival, connected Thursday.

Sir Elton has sons Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11, with hubby David Furnish. He told however the boys besides deliberation astir his mortality. Sir Elton added: “They interest arsenic they cognize however aged I am. Not truthful overmuch David but me. They emotion their Daddy truthful they privation maine to beryllium astir forever.

“I privation to beryllium astir forever. I privation to spot them person children, get joined but I don’t deliberation I americium going to beryllium astir for that. Who knows? You ne'er know.

“So that is wherefore I privation to marque the champion of my clip portion I americium around. Our clip unneurotic is truthful fantastic and truthful precious.” At an earlier screening helium had joked astir his health. Sir Elton said: “I don’t person tonsils, adenoids oregon an appendix. I don’t person a prostate. I don’t person a close hep oregon a near genu oregon a close knee.

“In fact, the lone happening near to maine is my near hip. But I’m inactive here.”

After his genu replacements helium was seen struggling to locomotion astatine the 32nd Aids Foundation Oscars viewing party, which helium hosted successful March.

He had the hep replacement successful 2021 aft revealing helium fell “awkwardly connected a hard surface”. In the summer, Sir Elton told however helium suffered nasty oculus infection.

He said: “It has unluckily near maine with lone constricted imaginativeness successful 1 eye.

“I americium healing, but it’s an highly dilatory process and it volition instrumentality immoderate clip earlier show returns to the impacted eye.”

In 2019, Sir Elton said helium had been “24 hours from death” aft contracting an corruption pursuing his prostate crab treatment.

Writing successful his memoir, helium told however helium was connected a formation backmost from a circuit successful South America erstwhile helium noticed helium “couldn’t halt shaking”. He said helium felt “worse than I ever had successful my life” by the clip helium was checked into King Edward VII’s backstage infirmary backmost location successful London.

Sir Elton added: “Given immoderate of the hangovers I’d had successful the ’70s and ’80s, that was saying ­something…

“I was told that my information was truthful serious, the infirmary didn’t person the ­equipment to header with it.”

After being moved to a antithetic hospital, helium spent the adjacent 2 days successful intensive care.

Sir Elton said: “In the hospital, unsocial astatine the dormant of night, I’d prayed, ‘Please don’t fto maine die, delight fto maine spot my kids again, delight springiness maine a small longer.’”

In the caller documentary, the Pinner-born prima besides spoke astir the carnal maltreatment helium suffered arsenic a kid astatine the hands of his parents. He says: “They were violent, they were physically violent. I utilized to locomotion connected eggshells successful lawsuit I did thing wrong.

“My parent erstwhile I was a twelvemonth aged she bushed maine 'til I bled with a ligament brushwood to marque maine potty trained… my full puerility was afloat of fear.”

Sir Elton’s begetter Stanley Dwight ne'er watched him perform.

The singer, who played astatine ­Glastonbury past year, said: “He ne'er saw maine live. It is sad. I privation it had been overmuch different. God I privation it had been different.”

Sir Elton won a Legacy gong astatine the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards successful London this week. He aboriginal posed with Ed Sheeran.