AGED 70, Phil Collins has sustained an injured vertebrae in his upper neck, crippling nerve damage, acute pancreatitis, falls, and “foot drop”.
Which experience led him to be “close to dying”? Following the collapse of his marriage to his third wife, Orianne Cevey, 47, Phil turned to drink.
“Within months you’re drinking vodka from the fridge in the morning and falling over in front of the kids, you know,” he said in a 2016 press conference.
“But it was something I lived through, and I was lucky to live through it and get through it. I was very close to dying.”
The year was 2012 when the musician was rushed off to a Swiss hospital with acute pancreatitis.
The NHS explained this is a condition whereby the pancreas becomes inflamed and swollen over a short period
- Express