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Friends helping Elton with health challenge

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November 27, 2025

SIR Elton John has told how his celebrity friends such as Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Mick Jagger often check in with him as he deals with losing his sight in one eye.

Sir Elton said he “lost my right eye and my left eye’s not so good” but he is hopeful that “some day science will help me with this one”.

The music star, who has just announced that he will headline a festival in Brazil next year, told US magazine Variety: “It's been devastating.

“The last 15 months have been challenging for me because I haven’t been able to see anything, watch anything, read anything.

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