He recently told Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 podcast Eras that “everything that could go wrong with me did go wrong”, adding: “I have a 24-hour live-in nurse to make sure I take my medication as I should do.”
He explained: “I got Covid in hospital, my kidneys started to back up, everything that could all seemed to sort of converge at the same time. And I had five operations on my knee.”
Collins, the father of Emily in Paris star Lily, also said he would “love” to tour again but wasn’t sure he wanted to “go as far as to launch that boat”.
His last major solo tour was the Not Dead Yet Tour from 2017 to 2019, and he performed seated during the Genesis reunion world tour in 2021 and 2022.
He also told Ball he may go back into the recording studio to work on “some things that are half-formed or were never finished”.
