While addressing the audience at a gala performance of his new musical The Devil Wears Prada, for which he wrote the lyrics, Elton John revealed that he is unable to watch the show due to ongoing problems with his eyesight.
The superstar singer/songwriter said “As some of you may know I have had issues and now I have lost my sight. I haven’t been able to see the performance but I have enjoyed it.” “I haven’t been able to come to many of the previews. It’s hard for me to see it but I love to hear it and it sounded good tonight.”
Sir Elton subsequently thanked his husband, David Furnish, “who’s been my rock”.
In September, the EGOT award winner confirmed that the severe eye infection he contracted in July while on holiday in France had left him blind in his right eye and with “only limited vision” in his left.
The Sunday night (12.01) gala performance of The Devil Wears Prada in London’s West End. was staged to raise funds for the Elton John Aids Foundation. The super star-studded event was attended by such famous fashion world faces as Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who’s rumored to have inspired the character of magazine editor Miranda Priestly.
In the musical, Priestly is played by US model and actor Vanessa Williams.
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Author: Saul Goode
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