{"id":123742,"date":"2024-09-08T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/08\/i-wish-i-could-see-you-sir-elton-john-laments-lack-of-vision-at-tiff-screening\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:01:38","slug":"i-wish-i-could-see-you-sir-elton-john-laments-lack-of-vision-at-tiff-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/08\/i-wish-i-could-see-you-sir-elton-john-laments-lack-of-vision-at-tiff-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I wish I could see you&#8217;: Sir Elton John laments lack of vision at TIFF screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-09-08\" datetime=\"1725782498\" pubdate=\"\">8 September 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sir-elton-john\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sir-elton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Elton John<\/a> lamented his lack of vision at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sir Elton John is battling an eye infection<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old singer revealed earlier this week he had &#8220;limited&#8221; sight in one eye due to a &#8220;severe infection&#8221; and at the screening of his new documentary, &#8216;Never Too Late&#8217;, on Friday (06.09.24) night, the &#8216;Candle in the Wind&#8217; hitmaker bemoaned the fact he couldn&#8217;t see the audience&#8217;s reaction properly.<\/p>\n<p>According to Entertainment Weekly, Elton said: &#8220;The love I have for this family, my family, my children, and my friends, has never been better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 77 years old, and I&#8217;m having the best time of my life, except for this f****** eye. I wish I could see you, but I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elton explained a few days ago he had been battling an eye infection and it would &#8220;take same time&#8221; for his vision to return.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a lengthy post on Instagram, he shared: &#8220;Over the summer, I&#8217;ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye. I am healing, but it&#8217;s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I am so grateful for the excellent team of doctors and nurses and my family, who have taken such good care of me over the last several weeks. I have been quietly spending the summer recuperating at home, and am feeling positive about the progress I have made in my healing and recovery thus far.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;With love and gratitude, Elton John.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pop icon actually stopped touring in 2023, and the &#8216;Tiny Dancer&#8217; singer &#8211; who has sons Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11, with his husband David Furnish &#8211; previously revealed that he was looking forward to spending more time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Your Song&#8217; hitmaker told CBS News in 2022: &#8220;I want to be with my family. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I mean, I&#8217;ve been touring since I was 17 in the back of a van. I&#8217;ve had the most incredible life. I&#8217;ve been so lucky, and I&#8217;ve loved every single minute of it. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But I&#8217;ve had enough of that applause, and I really want \u2026 I&#8217;ll be 76 years of age when I stop touring in 2023. I want to do something different with the rest of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/wish-see-sir-elton-john-laments-lack-vision-tiff-screening-1405900.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 September 2024 Sir Elton John lamented his lack of vision at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Sir Elton John is battling an eye infection The 77-year-old singer revealed earlier this week he had &#8220;limited&#8221; sight in one eye due to a &#8220;severe infection&#8221; and at the screening of his new documentary, &#8216;Never Too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2267,1995],"class_list":{"0":"post-123742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-david-furnish","9":"tag-sir-elton-john"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}