Elton John says he was ’24 hours away from death’

British singer Elton John said that he was “24 hours from death” due to infection in the body, Yahoo reported.  “The doctors told David I was 24 hours away from death,” the pop icon revealed in his new book Me: Elton John Official Autobiography.

The singer, 72, was reportedly diagnosed in 2017 and opted for surgery rather than chemotherapy because he did not want the disease “hanging over” his family.

He spent 11 days in a London hospital after lying awake at night “wondering if I was going to die”.
“In the hospital, alone at the dead of night, I’d prayed: please don’t let me die, please let me see my kids again, please give me a little longer” he wrote.

“In a strange way, it felt like the time I spent recuperating was the answer to my prayers: if you want more time, you need to learn to live like this, you have to slow down. It was like being shown a different life, a life I realised I loved more than being on the road. Music was the most wonderful thing, but it still didn’t sound as good as Zachary chattering about what had happened at Cubs or football practice,” he said.

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