{"id":788508,"date":"2026-10-01T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788508\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:02:10","slug":"phil-collins-makes-emotional-end-of-life-confession-after-kids-rushed-to-deathbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788508\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Collins makes emotional end of life confession after kids ‘rushed to deathbed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genesis drummer Phil Collins<\/a> made a heartbreaking confession about his children rushing to his deathbed when he thought he was going to die. The music icon, 75, sat down with Piers Morgan<\/a> for his Uncensored YouTube show to talk about his life and career – including the time he was hooked up to a dialysis machine after battling alcoholism.<\/p>\n

Piers asked him in a new trailer: “When you do look back at it, what do you feel?”, and Phil’s response was: “Lucky. All I wanted to do was be a drummer, and earn a living with it, really. Every night I’d look down the pit and there’d be the drummer that did it for six years, and I thought, ‘That will be me, so I’d better learn to read [music]’.”<\/p>\n

Piers then turned to harder subjects, asking: “You had a lot of physical issues, but the drinking issue became something that nearly killed you. Do you feel lucky just to be alive?”<\/p>\n

Phil admitted: “Yeah. I do. It was not looking good at one point. I was on a dialysis machine, things were just breaking down. The decision was whether I should be kept on a dialysis machine.”<\/p>\n

He previously said that his manager had called his five children to gather around his bedside.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Phil sat down with Piers Morgan (Image: YouTube)<\/p>\n

Phil’s five kids are eldest daughter Joely and son Simon, with first wife Andrea Bertorelli; Lily Collins with second wife Jill Tavelman; and sons Nicholas and Matthew with third wife Orianne Cevey.<\/p>\n

He said: “My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up. People were coming to say goodbye. But I don’t remember them coming, I didn’t have no idea this was going on.<\/p>\n

“They were all worried that they wouldn’t see me again. It could all have gone so terribly wrong.”<\/p>\n

Phil has been dealing with complications from a spinal injury he suffered in 2007<\/a>, and was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He retired from music in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genesis drummer Phil Collins made a heartbreaking confession about his children rushing to his deathbed when he thought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}