Tracy Pollan shared how she and Michael J. Fox stay positive amid his Parkinson’s, telling People, “I think you just have to do it day by day.”
She spoke at his foundation’s annual New York gala, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s, at the Waldorf Astoria. On Nov. 14, Pollan and the couple’s daughters Esmé, Schuyler and Aquinnah joined Fox on the red carpet.
“You have to look at what’s in front of you … and you have to stay in the moment — and if the moment is OK, that’s where you are,” she said.
Pollan married Fox in 1988, three years before his Parkinson’s diagnosis at 29 in 1991. They met when she auditioned for Family Ties in 1985 and reunited on Bright Lights, Big City in 1987.
In September, Fox told People, “Of course, things have gotten harder over the years.” Of the foundation’s work, Pollan said, “We really are seeing so much progress.”
At last year’s gala, Fox said of the friends and family who turn out for the night, “They’ve always been there for me, and they continue to be for me, year after year.”