Fox, 62, sat down with ET’s Cassie DiLaura on Saturday at this year’s A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s Gala — his annual fundraising benefit for The Michael J. Fox Foundation — held at Casa Cipriani in New York City.
The actor addressed recent remarks he’d made in which he said it felt as though being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease had actually been something of a gift.
“It clears the deck of all the BS,” Fox explained. “It really gets all of that stuff out of your life, and you start seeing things that are important, like your family and your health and your career and your obligation and your opportunity to serve.”
“It’s a tremendous gift in that sense,” Fox said. “[But] it’s [also] a gift that keeps on taking… no matter how chipper I am about it.”
Ultimately, Fox said that he looks at …