Michael J. Fox’s rise from Canadian high school dropout to global icon felt unstoppable: Family Ties, Back to the Future, the quick wit, the easy charm. Then, at 29, a tremor in his finger quietly shattered that illusion. Parkinson’s disease was a diagnosis meant for someone decades older, not Hollywood’s most bankable star. He hid it at first, numbing the terror with work and alcohol, clinging to normalcy while his future narrowed in the mirror.
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