Tony Christie admits 'I'm a different person' as he opens up on career after dementia diagnosis

Singer Tony Christie has said helium volition proceed to execute connected signifier for arsenic agelong arsenic helium tin aft being diagnosed with dementia.

Tony Christie has pledged to support the euphony going for arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable aft revealing helium feels transformed since his dementia diagnosis.

The legendary vocalist shared details of his wellness during a heartfelt quality connected Lorraine, wherever helium was accompanied by his granddaughter, Deia.

Discussing his information and the therapeutic relation of music, Tony recounted: "I mean, erstwhile I archetypal had this problem, I went to the doctor, the woman doctor, she says, 'You're precise fortunate due to the fact that you've got it, but you're precise fortunate you're successful the euphony concern due to the fact that euphony is 1 of the things we urge radical that person got dementia is to person euphony successful the inheritance due to the fact that it takes their encephalon distant from worrying astir dementia'."

He continued candidly: "And the bully happening is that I bask working. I'm a workaholic, and I get precise bored if I'm not working."

When it came to the taxable of Tony inactive hitting the signifier post-diagnosis, Deia chimed in, lauding her grandfather's signifier presence: "He's astonishing connected stage, it is similar you're a antithetic person," reports the Express.

To which Tony concurred with conviction: "I truly am. I volition accidental I americium a antithetic person."

The speech with Lorraine besides touched connected idiosyncratic stories, arsenic Tony reminisced astir gathering his wife, Deia's grandmother.

During the show, Lorraine highlighted the value of Tony's classical tune Stranger successful Paradise successful his beingness communicative and inquired, "Is that not erstwhile you decided that you knew the miss you were going to wed erstwhile you performed that song?"

"Yeah," helium confirmed with a motion earlier revealing: "I had a radical with me, Tony Christie and the Trackers, and I was doing this nighttime nine successful Rotherham, which I did a week at.

"And I was singing that opus arsenic my opening song, and she came walking successful with these lads who were really a band.

"She was a caput astatine a nightclub successful Sheffield, and they said, 'We're going implicit to Rotherham wherever Tony Christie is moving for the week; we privation to spell and spot him,' and she says,' Can I spell with you?'

"They brought her successful and sat down, and I conscionable turned to my bass player, Mike, and I conscionable said, 'Mike, I person conscionable seen the miss I americium going to marry,' and helium fell about."

"And you did, and the remainder was history," chimed successful the ITV host.

Lorraine airs weekdays astatine 9am connected ITV.