Legendary Scottish comedian an actor Billy Connolly has made a uncommon look to simply accept an award.
The 82-year-old was at Key West Movie Pageant in Florida, USA.
Connolly has Parkinson’s illness.
Actors Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi offered him with the award through the ceremony on Friday, in keeping with an an Instagram video,
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The Courageous star was awarded the Golden Key Award for Creative Excellence for his work, which he accepted sitting down.
He later acquired up with the assistance of his cane, explaining to the group: “I stroll with a stick as a result of I undergo from a horrible sickness.
“It is a pleasure to reside amongst you and it is a pleasure to be amongst you tonight.”
The previous slapstick comedian lives in Florida together with his spouse Pamela Stephenson, after transferring there from his native Scotland as medical doctors urged a hotter local weather would assist together with his Parkinson’s illness.
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“I do not typically do this sort of factor nevertheless it’s smashing. I’ve to thanks for this award. I do not know what it’s, it is a blue factor,” he mentioned.
“It is a pleasure and it’ll go beside my different prizes.”
Buscemi additionally mentioned a number of phrases in honour of the actor, who he met and have become buddies with on the set of the 1998 movie The Impostors.
“At some point on set Billy off handedly talked about, ‘You already know in the event you’re ever in Scotland, Pamela and I’ve a fort, it’s best to drop by’. We at all times had the perfect time. It is great to be right here to honour our pal, Billy Connolly.”
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Connolly beforehand opened up about his sickness in an interview with The Mirror a 12 months in the past.
He informed the newspaper he discovered shortly after that prognosis, on the identical day he was informed he had prostate most cancers, to “confront” his sickness.
“You simply confront it and make choices primarily based on it,” he informed the publication.
“You simply must assume ‘Do not assume you might be being badly handled [in life] or you have got the unhealthy choose of the straws. You’re one in every of tens of millions’.
Parkinson’s illness is an incurable neurological situation that impacts the nervous system, inflicting signs equivalent to tremors, gradual motion, and stiff muscle tissue.
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