LONDON – British singer Elton John, 77, told a theater audience on Sunday that he had lost his eyesight.

One of the best-selling artists of all time, the “Tiny Dancer” and “Rocket Man” star, attended the opening of a show in London’s West End but said he was unable to see the performance.

“As some of you may know, I have been struggling and have now lost my sight. I didn’t get to see the performance, but I enjoyed it,” John said, according to the Daily Mail.

John said in recent months that he was no longer able to see out of his right eye due to an eye infection and that his left was “no longer the best”, meaning he could no longer read or look at anything and that his ability to record new music was compromised and was at risk in the future.

John was on the red carpet on Sunday for the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, a musical based on the best-selling novel for which he wrote the music.

“I have a hard time watching it, but I love hearing it and it sounded good tonight,” he said.

Speaking to audience members in the theater, he thanked his husband David Furnish for being his “rock.”

John, who rose to fame in the early 1970s and whose piano-led rock songs and ballads like “Candle in the Wind” have kept him in the spotlight ever since, played a farewell tour between 2018 and 2023 and has since focused on his family.

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