{"id":31828,"date":"2026-07-29T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:03:30","slug":"carly-simon-opens-up-about-her-battles-with-parkinsons-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31828","title":{"rendered":"Carly Simon Opens Up About Her Battles With Parkinson\u2019s and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"217\"><strong data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"217\">Music legend Carly Simon has revealed a deeply personal health battle that explains why she has spent years away from the spotlight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"413\">The 83-year-old singer shared that she has been diagnosed with <strong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"305\">Parkinson&#8217;s disease<\/strong> and also underwent surgery to remove <strong data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"367\">basal cell carcinoma<\/strong>, a common form of skin cancer, from her face.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"415\" data-end=\"643\">Simon said she initially believed her worsening mobility was caused by arthritis and recovery from multiple joint replacements. However, after extensive testing at the Mayo Clinic, doctors diagnosed her with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"765\">She described living with daily stiffness, exhaustion, anxiety, depression, and the unpredictable nature of the illness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"832\">Despite these challenges, Simon says she hasn&#8217;t stopped creating.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"975\">She has been working on <strong data-start=\"858\" data-end=\"906\">her first album of original songs since 2008<\/strong>, finding comfort and purpose in music throughout her health journey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1046\">Reflecting on everything she&#8217;s faced, Simon shared a message of hope:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1123\"><strong data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1123\">&#8220;Illness can change your life without becoming the whole of your life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1173\">Ending her heartfelt update, she reassured fans:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1207\"><strong data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1207\">&#8220;I am still very much here.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mdv16umOsOU?si=z6GJfqvBX1CiJ3M7\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend Carly Simon has revealed a deeply personal health battle that explains why she has spent years away from the spotlight. The 83-year-old singer shared that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease and also underwent surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, from her face. Simon said she&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31828\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Carly Simon Opens Up About Her Battles With Parkinson\u2019s and Cancer&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31830,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions\/31830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}