Her emotional comments come after Phil—who also shares kids Nic Collins, 24, and Matthew Collins, 18, with wife Orianne Cevey, as well as Joely Collins, 52, and Simon Collins, 48, with ex Andrea Bertorelli—publicly revealed how he suffered kidney damage from his past alcohol addiction.
“I’d probably been drinking too much, so my kidneys were messed up,” Phil explained in the Jan. 19 episode of BBC’s Eras podcast series, per The Daily Mail. “I wasn’t one of those guys that sort of stayed up all night drinking. I’d drink during the day, but I guess I had too much of it.”
The "That’s All" hitmaker continued, “I was never drunk, although I fell over a couple of times. It is just one of those things that happened. It all caught up with me and I spent months in hospital.”
But this wouldn’t be the first time that his health complications have made headlines. Previously, Phil’s experience with joint pain sparked rumors that he was receiving hospice care last July, which his team denied. Instead, the rockstar was in the hospital healing from knee surgery.
“I had everything that could go wrong with me, go wrong with me,” he explained in the podcast episode. “I had five operations on my knee now. I’ve got a knee that works and I can walk, albeit with assistance [from] crutches.”
He also deals with significant nerve damage in his hands, which began after a spinal injury while he performed on his band’s farewell tour in 2007. Following the painful diagnosis, Phil made the difficult decision to retire from drumming.
“If I can’t do what I did as well as I did it, I’d rather relax and not do anything,” he noted in his December 2024 documentary Phil Collins: Drummer First. "If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks, then I’ll have a crack at it. But I just feel like I’ve used up my air miles.”
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