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Michael J. Fox is mourning the passing of his mother, Phyllis Fox.
Michael, 61, paid tribute to his mother, who passed away on September 24 at the age of 92, while he was at the Back to the Future Reunion Panel at New York Comic-Con (NYCC) on Saturday.
Michael told a story about how his mother first objected to him filming Back to the Future at night and Family Ties during the day in the 1980s, noting that Phyllis “passed away two weeks ago.”
‘They want me to do this Steven Spielberg movie, but I have to do Family Ties in the day,’ I said over the phone when I was 23 years old; she was in Canada. She replied, ‘You’ll be too exhausted,” Michael recalled.
Michael said, “To this day, or at least until two weeks ago, my mother thought it was a pretty awful idea for me to do Back to the Future. She liked the movie, [but she was right], I became exhausted. I live for this type of tiredness. It’ll be okay.”
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According to an online obituary, Phyllis was born in 1929 to parents Henry “Skip” Piper and Jane “Jenny” Piper in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Kenneth, Stuart, and Albert were her three brothers, while Patricia was her sister. She was preceded in death by her husband William, her son Mark, her daughter Karen, and each of her siblings.
Phyllis is currently survived by her daughters Jackie and Kelli, sons Steve and Michael, and. Nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter are among the other survivors. According to Phyllis’ obituary, “Nothing made her happier than watching her family grow.”
The online obituary requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent in Phyllis’ honor to a number of organizations that support causes like diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, the Burnaby General Hospital, the BC Children’s Hospital, and Canuck Place.
Michael also talked about remaining optimistic despite the challenges he encounters in his life during the NYCC panel over the weekend. Christopher Lloyd, who played Doc Brown in Back to the Future, joined him on stage.
He told the crowd, “I had a hard year of getting beat up. I’ve broken my cheek, my eye socket, my hand, my elbow, and my shoulder.” “But that was really amazing because it helped me realize that it’s sustainable if you have thankfulness,” I said.
It’ll always get better, he said, “if you can find anything to be thankful for if you can find something and say, ‘Well, that’s good. “… I have a lot of hope.”
“I’d say optimism is thinking that things are more likely to become better than they are to get worse. If you believe that, and you are grateful for it, that’ll sustain you for the rest of your life,” continued Michael.
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