Michael J. Fox Praises Wife Tracy for Never Bailing Through Parkinson's Battle

Tracy Pollan and Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox will forever be grateful to his wife, Tracy Pollan, for always sticking by his side.

The Back to the Future alum has lived with Parkinson's disease for more than half of his life, and Pollan—who he met on the set of the sitcom Family Ties—has been with him every step of the way.

"She's an amazing person and she's gone through a lot," Fox, 62, gushed about his wife while talking to CBS Mornings co-host Nate Burleson in a new interview.

"I realize that she has a life separate from me having Parkinson's or separate from me being Alex Keaton or Marty McFly," he continued. "She's a person."

While Fox admitted that he didn't know what to expect from a partner while dealing with such a serious illness, he knew that when she said "for better or for worse" and "in sickness and in health" that she was going to "hang out and get me through it and go through it with me."

Fox and Pollan married in 1988, before the actor was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991 at the age of 29.

"We knew the bus was coming and it was going to hit but we didn't know how far away it was, how fast it was going," he explained.

Fox even said that Pollan "would have been forgiven," had she chosen to leave and carry on with her own life. "But she didn't do that."

Now, over thirty years later, the couple is working together to help find a cure for Parkinson's disease with their work through the Michael J. Fox foundation, which will be hosting its annual fundraiser this weekend.

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