AMERICAN SINGER CARLY Simon, known for hits like \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain,\u201d revealed on Monday that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n
The 83-year-old confessional lyricist said in a statement that she had \u201cbeen learning how to live with Parkinson\u2019s disease\u201d and that she had also been treated for skin cancer.<\/p>\n
Parkinson\u2019s disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects the body\u2019s motor system, often causing shaking and other difficulties in movement.<\/p>\n
Worldwide, about 10 million people have the illness, according to the Parkinson\u2019s Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly,\u201d Simon wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cParkinson\u2019s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable. Some days I\u2019m so tired I can\u2019t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problems began with arthritis in both knees and one hip. I eventually had all three joints replaced, out with the old and in with delicate bouquets of metal and plastic.\u201d<\/p>\n
After three replacement surgeries, she said, \u201cI assumed my difficulty walking was simply an unfortunate and rather ironic part of the recovery process.\u201d<\/p>\n
The celebrated singer-songwriter said she had found sanctuary in music, and that during that period she even began recording a new album, \u201cComes in Waves,\u201d her first new collection of original tracks since 2008, to be released on August 14.<\/p>\n
Simon said that at the same time as her Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis, she was treated for a facial basal cell carcinoma.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cancer was removed, but the surgery affected my appearance and made me more self-conscious about being seen in public,\u201d she said in a heartfelt statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always been more critical of my appearance than anyone else could possibly imagine (check out the irony of having written \u2018You\u2019re So Vain\u2019), and this gave my inner critic quite a lot of new material.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simon began singing with her sister in the 1960s. She rose to global stardom with her 1972 album \u201cNo Secrets,\u201d which spawned the number one smash \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1977 she sang \u201cNobody Does it Better,\u201d the popular James Bond theme song from \u201cThe Spy Who Loved Me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMERICAN SINGER CARLY Simon, known for hits like \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain,\u201d revealed on Monday that she has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[121404,106763,93,61,60,278,101956],"class_list":["post-571855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-carly-simon","tag-celebrity-health","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-parkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}