New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Outfoxing Parkinson’s MICHAEL’S CAN-DO ATTITUDE

There’s a touching scene in the recently released Michael J. Fox documentary Still. It shows the star taking a tumble as he tries, valiantly, to walk down the street on legs that simply won’t do what he tells them to.

A passing woman, who knows he’s battling Parkinson’s disease, offers to help him get back up.

Instead, he declines and jokes, “You knocked me off my feet!” It’s clear that despite the curveball life has thrown at him, the Hollywood A-lister has lost none of his

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