After the singer Chantal Goya, it is now Michael J. Fox’s turn to face a rumor of his death. According to the American media Entertainment Weekly, CNN aired a video titled “Tribute to actor Michael J. Fox,” featuring interview clips and videos of the American actor’s work over the years. “He appeared in our homes every week, on the small screen, as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties, then on the big screen as Marty McFly in Back to the Future. But Michael J. Fox had a third career, playing a man with Parkinson’s disease and advocating for stem cell research,” declares a narrator. This led fans of the sixty-year-old actor to panic after the video was released on CNN and other sites where its content was shared.
Comment l’acteur Michael J. Fox a-t-il réagi à la rumeur sur sa mort?
Rest assured, Michael J. Fox is alive and well. The Back to the Future star humorously denied the death rumor in a message posted on Threads. “How do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN announces your death. Do you… A) switch to MNSBC, or whatever their current name is, B) pour boiling water on your knees, if it hurts, so be it, C) call your wife, hoping she is worried but reassuring, D) relax, they do this once a year, E) wonder, ‘What’s this?! I thought it was the end of the world, but apparently, it’s just me and I’m fine.’ Kisses, Mike,” he wrote. Michael J. Fox appeared at the PaleyFest in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 7 alongside Harrison Ford and the rest of the Shrinking team. The actor has joined season 3 of the series in which he portrays a character with Parkinson’s disease.
A CNN spokesperson told USA Today that the report on Michael J. Fox “was published in error.” “We have removed it from our platforms and apologize to Michael J. Fox and his family,” they added.
Michael J. Fox was previously falsely reported dead by a fake American site
This is not the first time Michael J. Fox has been the subject of a false death rumor. A few years ago, an article announcing his demise was published on a site designed to mislead readers. The article claimed that Tracy Pollan’s husband had died of pneumonia, a few days after being hospitalized for Parkinson’s-related complications. The site also alleged that the actor’s disappearance had been confirmed by his doctors.
