'I've noticed a deterioration in my balance.'
In the years since, he’s been open about what it’s like to live with the degenerative disease, sharing earlier this year that although there were difficulties, he had aHowever now, a few months down the line Sir Billy and his wife Pamela Stephenson have spoken about the toll it’s currently taking.‘Recently I’ve noticed‘That was never such a problem before, but in the last year that has come and it has stayed.
He added: ‘For some reason, I thought it would go away, because a lot of symptoms have come and gone away … just to defy the symptom spotters.’ Sharing that ‘the shaking has reappeared…’, his wife then added that his ‘balance issue’ had become a ‘significant’ hurdle. ‘Especially since, unfortunately, it resulted in you having a couple of serious falls,’ she added in an article they were jointly interviewed for inSir Billy responded: ‘It’s funny, that fall I had when I landed on my jaw reminded me of a thing I used to do on stage.
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