Phil Collins faced death two years ago, and has lived to tell the tale. <\/p>\n
The Grammy-winning singer recalled to the Times of London <\/a>how his \u201ckidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing\u201d when he was was hospitalized in Switzerland in April 2024 because of alcohol abuse. At the time, Collins\u2019 five children \u2014 including \u201cEmily in Paris\u201d star Lily Collins \u2014 were called to his bedside for what they thought could be his final moments. <\/p>\n \u201cThere were some decisions to be made about \u2018Do we keep Phil on life support?\u2019\u201d he recalled for the profile, published Monday. He added: \u201cPeople were coming to say goodbye. But I don\u2019t remember them coming, I didn\u2019t have no idea this was going on. They were all worried that they wouldn\u2019t see me again. It could all have gone so terribly wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Collins reflected on his brush with death to the news outlet months before he is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> in November. His fellow inductees include Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division\/New Order, Oasis, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan. <\/p>\n The profile about the \u201cIn the Air Tonight\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019ll Be in My Heart\u201d singer recalled the extent of his struggles with alcohol, including after his divorce from Orianne Cevey. Collins, 75, said when he was drinking, \u201cthe calendar [went] out the window\u201d and that he opted for wine for breakfast. The Times of London reported that Collins was hospitalized in November 2023 and swiftly discharged, only to return to the intensive care unit and stay hospitalized for seven months. <\/p>\n \u201cI was very lucky to have come out of that. Needless to say, I haven\u2019t had a drink since,\u201d he said. According to the outlet, Collins has permanent scarring on his pancreas, and his kidneys \u201cbarely\u201d function. <\/p>\n Collins spoke about his alcohol abuse earlier this year in a five-episode podcast series with Zoe Ball<\/a>. He revealed in April that he has a live-in nurse and that it\u2019s an \u201congoing\u201d effort to manage his health. He said \u201ceverything that could go wrong with me did go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI got COVID in hospital, my kidneys started to back up, you know, everything that could, all seemed to sort of converge at the same time,\u201d he said, adding that he had undergone five operations on his knee. <\/p>\n Collins also admitted in April he\u2019d \u201cprobably been drinking too much\u201d and that he recently celebrated two years of sobriety.<\/p>\n Collins spoke in his most recent interview about his desire \u201cto be in love again,\u201d revisited his controversial love life and spoke about mending his relationships with Piers Morgan, Paul McCartney and daughter Lily Collins<\/a> after various rifts<\/a> that played out in the media. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like people going around thinking I hate them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Collins faced death two years ago, and has lived to tell the tale. The Grammy-winning singer recalled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[183207,56784,218527,3190,146,259520,85,46,3857,442,186279,72295,39963,54941,259519,762,4942,1661],"class_list":["post-573999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alcohol-abuse","tag-april","tag-brush","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-winning-singer","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kidney","tag-london","tag-luther-vandross","tag-november","tag-phil-collins","tag-profile","tag-star-lily-collins","tag-time","tag-times","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}