Sir Billy Connolly has stated his life has modified “radically” since he was recognized with Parkinson’s illness.

The Scottish comic, 80, additionally revealed his spouse now clothes him within the morning – and he as soon as forgot the identify of certainly one of his canines.

Sir Billy was recognized with the illness 10 years in the past – on the identical day he came upon he had prostate most cancers, which he later obtained the all-clear on.

Parkinson’s illness impacts the mind and causes unintended or uncontrollable actions resembling shaking and issue with stability and coordination. It can get extra extreme over time.

He retired from his profitable stand-up profession in 2018, 5 years after his analysis.

“My life has changed radically,” he instructed BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“I walk with a stick and at airports I have to get the wheelchair. I hate being dependent to that degree and I feel sorry for other people who are in wheelchairs and who have [it] worse than me.

“But it is a factor I simply should put up with.

“My spouse places my garments on within the morning. It’s not very manly. Your mum places your garments on.

“I’m clumsy and I lose my balance. I’m out of balance a lot and I fall. I’m fed up with it,” he stated.

“I think I have a good attitude to it. I say to the disease ‘I’ll give you a break if you give me a break’. We’re nice to each other.

“My reminiscence is brief. I forgot the identify of certainly one of my canines, which is basically awkward if you’re shouting to it on the street.

“You have to say ‘hey doggy doggy’, which is terrible. I felt embarrassed for the dog. You could tell it knew.”

He continued: “I shake a bit. I don’t shake every day, all the time. But for about an hour or two I’ll shake and when I’m drawing it spoils it. Then I conquered it. I draw with shakes in it and it works.

“I believe most issues may be conquered and particularly the despair. Depression is such a fancy affair, however you must conquer it, take it on face-to-face and refuse to be a part of it.

“I’ve always been easily made to laugh. I am a lucky man with my sense of humour. I can laugh myself out of most things.”

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Sir Billy additionally stated he has thought of what he needs to have written on his headstone in an extract from his new e book revealed in The Telegraph.

“I was thinking I’d like: ‘Jesus Christ, is that the time already?’ on mine, but my wife Pamela was shaky about it, so we settled on ‘You’re standing on my balls!’ in tiny wee writing,” he wrote.

“As for me – I haven’t made up my mind about my burial place, but I’m thinking that instead of a headstone, a table on an island in Loch Lomond for fishermen to picnic on would be nice.”

Sir Billy, who has made a documentary about loss of life rituals, added: “I used to think about death, and about the life I led, and would ask myself, ‘How will I be held responsible for it when I come to judgment before God?’ I don’t believe that anymore, although the whole thing is still a mystery to me.”

But he mocked experiences of his “demise” and stated they’d been “greatly exaggerated”.

“There was a week a few years ago where on Monday I got hearing aids, Tuesday I got pills for heartburn, and Wednesday I received news that I had prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease. But despite all that, I never ever felt close to dying.”