Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the Grammy-winner revealed Monday.
“It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it and to decide how much I wanted to say about it,” Simon, 83, said in a statement to People. She added she is “still learning how to live with it and how to accept it without feeling that I have surrendered something essential.”
Amid her struggles with Parkinson’s, the “You’re So Vain” singer also revealed she underwent surgery for basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.
In her statement, Simon said that she
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