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Neil Diamond on living with Parkinson’s disease: ‘I was just not ready to accept it’

Neil Diamond.
‘The beat goes on and it will go on long after I’m gone,’ singer Neil Diamond said in an interview with CBS about living with Parkinson’s disease. Photograph: Ari Michelson

Neil Diamond has given a candid interview about living with Parkinson’s disease, saying he has only recently accepted his condition.

Appearing on CBS Sunday Morning, the 82-year-old musician told journalist Anthony Mason he was in denial “for the first year or two” after receiving his diagnosis in 2018.

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