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Filmmaker David Lynch clarifies he will not retire despite Illness
LOS ANGELES, Aug 5 (Reuters) - "Twin Peaks" creator David Lynch said on Monday he is filled with happiness and will never retire despite an emphysema diagnosis, clarifying comments he made earlier to magazine Sight and Sound that he would most likely have to stop working.
The 78-year-old American filmmaker posted on social media platform X that he appreciated everyone that has voiced concern over his health condition, noting that his past as a smoker caused his emphysema, a lung disease with no known cure
Filmmaker David Lynch clarifies he will not retire despite Illness
LOS ANGELES, Aug 5 (Reuters) - "Twin Peaks" creator David Lynch said on Monday he is filled with happiness and will never retire despite an emphysema diagnosis, clarifying comments he made earlier to magazine Sight and Sound that he would most likely have to stop working.
The 78-year-old American filmmaker posted on social media platform X that he appreciated everyone that has voiced concern over his health condition, noting that his past as a smoker caused his emphysema, a lung disease with no known cure
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00:00Los Angeles, Aug. 5, Twin Peaks creator David Lynch said on Monday he is filled with happiness
00:07and will never retire despite an emphysema diagnosis, clarifying comments he made earlier
00:12to magazine site and Sound that he would most likely have to stop working.
00:17The 78-year-old American filmmaker posted on social media platform X that he appreciated
00:22everyone that has voiced concern over his health condition, noting that his past as
00:26a smoker caused his emphysema, a lung disease with no known cure.
00:31Yes, I have emphysema from my many years of smoking.
00:35I have to say that I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco, the smell of
00:40it, lighting cigarettes on fire, smoking them, he wrote, gaining 1.3 million likes.
00:47But there is a price to pay for this enjoyment, and the price for me is emphysema.
00:52I have now quit smoking for over two years.
00:56Unfortunately I had many tests and the good news is that I am in excellent shape except
01:00for emphysema, he added.
01:02He also said in the interview for the site and Sound September cover story that he was
01:06no longer able to leave his home as he was afraid of contracting COVID-19, which would
01:11threaten his health even further.
01:13I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, and so I'm homebound whether I like
01:18it or not.
01:20And now, because of COVID, it would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold,
01:25Lynch told the British magazine.