Elton John reveals he has lost his eyesight: "I can’t read anything. I can’t watch anything"

Speaking about his forthcoming Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, and rumours of an accompanying album featuring Brandi Carlile, he revealed that his eyesight has been putting his creativity on hold.

"It’s been a while since I’ve done anything, and I just have to get off my backside," he explained. "Unfortunately, I lost my eyesight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the south of France, and it’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see – and my left eye’s not the greatest – so there’s hope and encouragement, and it will be OK, but I’m kind of stuck at the moment."

There's an uncertainty with his musical output at the moment, "because I can do something like this [interview], but going into the studio and recording, I don’t know because I can’t see a lyric, for a start," he went on to add. "We’re taking initiative to try and get it better, but at the moment, that’s really what we’re concentrating on. It’s never fortunate for anything like this to happen, and it kind of floored me. I can’t see anything. I can’t read anything. I can’t watch anything."