Robbie Williams’ father Pete Conway was hospitalized on Monday after a painful fall.
The 72-year-old entertainer, who has Parkinson’s disease, shared on Twitter that he was in pain after the incident – resulting in a broken bone in his spine.
Admittedly, “I’ve had better days,” he also shared two pics of the back of the ambulance, while keeping his 13.1k followers up to date.
Explaining the injury, Pete wrote: “Yesterday I fell and broke a bone in my spine…(yes it hurts)…and I spent all day in the hospital today. I’ve had better days.’
The veteran entertainer, who is also a professional singer like his son, added that Parkinson’s is a “nuisance” citing his battle with the disease.
‘I’ve Had Better Days’: Robbie Williams’ father Pete is rushed to hospital in an ambulance after a painful fall
Pete shared a picture of the back of the ambulance with the paramedics who came to his rescue.
While the tweet also showed another of him in the hospital recovering with a face covering.
Back in 2020, Robbie revealed his father had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s – when the couple were separated due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Speaking to ‘The Mirror’, the ‘Angels’ singer explained: “We’re having a lot of family issues right now. My father has Parkinson’s, my mother-in-law, who I love very much, has a very serious illness. We can’t reach them. My father is thousands of kilometers away.”
Robbie added: “My mum is just a year under 80 and she’s isolating and I can see things spinning around in her head and her eyes going.”
The singer is currently touring Europe and will no doubt be worried about his father who lives in the British town of Stoke-on-Trent.
Pete shares famous son Robbie with ex-wife Janet, whom he separated in 1977. The two also share daughter Sally, who is 11 years older than Robbie.
And it seems that acting talent runs in the family, as the former Take That star has been joined on stage many times for duets by his father Pete.
Runs in the family: Pete, who has Parkinson’s disease, is often known for taking the stage for stunning duets with his famous son Robbie (pictured in 2019)
Help: Pete shared a picture of the back of the ambulance with the paramedics who came to his rescue after this week’s fall
Explaining the injury, he wrote: “Yesterday I fell and broke a bone in my spine…(yes it hurts)…and I spent all day in the hospital today. I’ve had better days’
In 2019, a year before his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Pete took the stage in Las Vegas with Robbie to sing Sweet Caroline to a roaring crowd.
While a close source shared in 2020 that Pete has been in good health and has sung at many of Robbie’s shows that year.
Parkinson’s causes muscle stiffness, slow movement, tremors, trouble sleeping, chronic fatigue, a reduced quality of life and can lead to severe disability.
(Pete pictured with Robbie and his wife Ayda Field)
Robbie previously shared his concern for both of his parents during an interview with The Sun, sharing: “They are of that age that is very vulnerable to what is going on so I speak to them on the phone daily.”
And while he’s known to have a worldwide property portfolio, Robbie is said to live primarily with his wife Ayda Field and their children in a £17.5million mansion in Kensington, west London.
They share children Theodora, nine, Charlton, seven, Coco, three, and Beau, two
WHAT IS PARKINSON’S DISEASE?
Parkinson’s disease affects one in 500 people and around 127,000 people in the UK are living with the disease.
Numbers also suggest that one million Americans are also suffering.
It causes muscle stiffness, slow movement, tremors, trouble sleeping, chronic fatigue, reduced quality of life and can lead to severe disability.
It’s a progressive neurological disease that destroys cells in the part of the brain that controls movement.
It is known that sufferers have a reduced supply of dopamine because nerve cells that produce it have died.
There is currently no cure and no way to stop the disease from progressing, but hundreds of scientific studies are underway to change this.