- Michael J. Fox said he couldn't recall all the women he dated in the 1980s.
- He brought up Susanna Hoffs, lead singer of The Bangles.
Michael J. Fox fondly recollected his time as a larger-than-life star in the 1980s — at least the times he can remember.
Fox, who spoke to the Sunday Times ahead of the release of his documentary "Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie" — a film about his life journey with Parkinson's — said watching the film about this period of his life was "crazy."
"I mean, I dated Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles, and I can't even remember it," Fox told The Sunday Times of Hoffs, who he dated briefly in 1986. "But that's just an example. Stuff like that happened all the time."
Fox also said that during the premiere of "Back to the Future," his most popular movie role to date, he was seated next to Princess Diana, but he said the only thing he could recall from this moment was that he had to pee.
"I had just been told a whole list of things that I could and couldn't do, like not speaking unless spoken to, and not standing unless she stands. And so I was thinking, 'What kind of math do I have to do to go to the bathroom?' I can't say, 'I've go to go to the loo!' So I sat there in pain for the whole time," Fox told the Sunday Times. "And that was kind of the formula for that part of my life."
Fox did not specify whether or not these memory issues stemmed from his Parkinson's, an incurable disease affecting the nervous system that can cause cognitive impairments like memory loss. In the past, however, he has elaborated on how the disease has affected his ability to recall lines.
Ahead of the release of his documentary, Fox spoke to CBS News detailing his life with Parkinson's after being diagnosed with it at 29 in 1991. He told Jane Pauley on "CBS Sunday Morning" that he did not see himself living to be 80.
"I'm not going to lie. It's getting hard, it's getting harder. It's getting tougher. Every day it's tougher. But that's the way it is," Fox said.