Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox has reassured fans that he is alive and well after CNN published a misleading article about his death.
“Michael is doing very well,” his representative told TMZ on Wednesday. “He was at PaleyFest yesterday. He was on stage doing interviews.”
Additionally, a CNN spokesperson issued an apology following the release of a video titled “Remembering the Life of Actor Michael J. Fox.”
“The package was published in error. We have removed it from our platform and apologize to Michael J. Fox and his family,” a representative told the outlet.
Representatives for Fox, 64, could not immediately be reached for comment to Page Six.
On Tuesday, the actor stopped by PaleyFest LA at the Dolby Theater to attend the Season 3 wrap party for the Apple TV+ series “Shrinking.”
The “Spin City” alum joins Jason Segel and Harrison Ford as guest stars in the upcoming season, which was released in January and concludes Wednesday.
Foxx was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 and has been away from major on-camera appearances in recent years.
He was only 29 years old at the time and waited until 1998 to reveal his symptoms.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Parkinson’s disease is defined as a “progressive movement disorder of the nervous system” that eventually causes “symptoms such as movement problems, tremors, stiffness, and balance problems.”
Over the years, Fox has opened up about his battle with the disease, revealing how he initially ran away from it when he was first diagnosed.
“Honestly, my first reaction was, ‘You made a mistake, you don’t realize who I am,'” he told Closer Weekly in 2018.
“I drank too much and reacted,” he said. “I drank to make it go away, to make it go away.[But the abuse]caused strain in my marriage. It had always been good up until that point, and it’s been a great relationship ever since.”
Fox is married to Tracy Pollan, whom he married in 1988, and the couple have a 36-year-old son, Michael, 31-year-old twin daughters, Aquinnah Kathleen and Skyler Frances Fox, and a 24-year-old daughter, Esme Annabelle.
Fox also weakly revealed in a 2023 interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” that he had accepted that he would not live to be 80, and that his illness would “tell” him when it was time to die.
At the time, the “Family Ties” alum admitted that it was “getting tougher” by the day.
