'Michael Is Doing Great' — CNN Personally Apologises to Michael J. Fox and His Family After Article and Video Suggested the Back to the Future Star Had Died

CNN has apologized aft accidentally publishing an nonfiction and video designed to "remember the life" of Back to the Future prima Michael J. Fox.

The article, which has since been pulled, was initially uploaded yesterday to CNN's website, sparking understandable interest for the beloved actor.

Now, successful a connection sent to personage quality website TMZ, a typical for Fox has enactment instrumentality fears' astatine easiness by confirming that "Michael is doing great" and noting that helium had attended a normal this week to springiness interviews. CNN, meanwhile, has admitted that its nonfiction was "published successful error."

"We person removed it from our platforms and nonstop our apologies to Michael J. Fox and his family," CNN continued.

Fox was reportedly past seen successful nationalist lone connected Tuesday, astatine a wrapper enactment for the 3rd play of the Jason Segel and Harrison Ford drama bid Shrinking. The 64-year-old histrion has travel retired of status to look successful the show, which features a salient quality (played by Ford) who has Parkinson's disease.

Of course, Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's backmost successful 1990, aged conscionable 29, and has gone connected to go 1 of the world's astir salient advocates for probe to assistance combat the disease. As good arsenic helping rise much than $2 cardinal successful donations, Fox released the documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie successful 2023, and made a dependable cameo successful Zootopia 2 arsenic Michael J. The Fox.

In a station connected Threads, Fox issued a connection connected the "news": "How bash you respond erstwhile you crook connected the TV and CNN is reporting your death? Do you…A) power to MNSBC, oregon immoderate they are calling themselves these days, (B) Pour scolding blistery h2o connected your lap, if it hurts your fine, (C) Call your wife, hopefully she’s acrophobic but reassuring, (D) Relax, they bash this erstwhile each year, (E) Ask yourself wtf ? I thought the satellite was ending, but seemingly it’s conscionable maine and I’m ok. Love, Mike."

In October past year, Fox addressed a "temporal inconsistency" successful his iconic Back to the Future guitar country successful his caller memoir, Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum. In June 2025, Fox and Gibson launched a hunt for the ES-­345 aft it went missing pursuing the merchandise of the film. “We request your help, we’re trying to find the guitar I played successful Back to the Future,” Fox told fans. “It’s determination mislaid successful the space-time continuum, oregon it’s successful immoderate teamster’s garage.”

Meanwhile, past month, Fox's chap Shrinking co-star Harrison Ford made headlines of his ain by confirming helium had listened to the soundtracks from immoderate of his classical films portion getting engaged successful the bedroom.

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