Footage from his documentary 'My Absolute Pleasure', Scottish actor discusses how he 'thinks about death a lot', 'probably every day' as he talks about how he has 'seen death'.
Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] Billy Connolly has made a harrowing admission about death as he opened up about his ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease.
Reflecting on his 'funny week' in which he got a double diagnosis, he said: 'On the Monday, I had hearing aids. On the Tuesday I got pills for heart burn, which I have to take all the time, and on the Wednesday I got news that I had prostate cancer and Parkinson's.' The star then joked that he probably got the disease following his several appearances on Michael Parkinson's chat show, before that noting he just 'confronted' the reality of having the condition instead of wallowing in self-pity.
The Scottish star heartbreakingly confessed that after 'confronting' the reality of his situation, he came to the realisation that death was not 'a big thing' Nicknamed the Big Yin, Connolly worked as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards before starting a career as a folk singer. When he discovered that the audience enjoyed his banter between songs more than the songs themselves he swapped to comedy.
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