- Country music star
Alan Jackson said he's been living with a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. - "I have this nephropathy and neurological disease," he said. "It's genetic that I inherited from my daddy."
- Per the Mayo Clinic, the disease "is a group of inherited disorders that cause nerve damage... mostly in the arms and legs."
Country music star Alan Jackson said he's been sick for years, living with a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Jackson, 62, opened up about living with the condition for the past decade during an interview broadcast Tuesday with Jenna Bush Hager on NBC
"I have this nephropathy and neurological disease," he said. "It's genetic that I inherited from my daddy.
"There's no cure for it, but it's been affecting me for years," he continued Tuesday. "And it's getting more and more obvious. And I know I'm stumbling around on stage. And now I'm having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone, and so I just feel very uncomfortable."
The disease is not deadly, he told "TODAY."
"I never wanted to do the big retirement tour, like people do, then take a year off and then come back," Jackson added. "I think that's kinda cheesy. And I'm not saying I won't be able to tour. I'll try to do as much as I can."
The disease "is a group of inherited disorders that cause nerve damage... mostly in the arms and legs," according to the Mayo Clinic. Its symptoms often begin in the feet and legs but also can affect hands and arms, according to the Mayo Clinic.
It is often diagnosed in adolescence but sometimes during mid-life, the Mayo Clinic says.