Phil Collins' biggest heartbreak didn't happen onstage.The music icon revealed the emotional goodbye he shared with his children in 2024 while facing life-threatening health struggles and alcoholism, unsure if he would make it home.Collins' manager called up the singer's five children — Lily, Joely, Simon, Nicolas and Matthew — while he lay unconscious in a Swiss hospital."Because there were some decisions to be made about ‘Do we keep Phil on life support?’ kind of thing," he told The Sunday Times.RANDY TRAVIS' HEALTH CRISIS BEGAN WITH 'CONGESTION' AND ENDED IN A FIVE-MONTH HOSPITAL STAYPhil Collins recalled fearing he might never see his children again as he battled life-threatening health issues and alcoholism, revealing his family was called to his hospital bedside in 2024 while doctors weighed critical decisions.
(Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images)"My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up," Collins explained."People were coming to say goodbye."While Collins has little memory of those harrowing days, his children carried the weight of believing they could be saying their final goodbyes."But I don’t remember them coming," he admitted.
"I didn’t have no idea this was going on.They were all worried that they wouldn’t see me again.
It could all have gone so terribly wrong."IS DRINKING EVERY DAY ALCOHOLISM? EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHERE CULTURE AND ADDICTION COLLIDEPhil Collins opened up about surviving a life-threatening medical crisis in 2024, sharing that his children gathered to say goodbye while he remained unconscious in a Swiss hospital.(Larry Busacca/Getty Images)Surviving the ordeal prompted Collins to make a life-changing decision about his drinking."I was very lucky to have come out of that," Collins told the publication, adding, "Needless to say, I haven’t had a drink since."Months later, Collins spent time reconnecting with his kids after surviving the frightening brush with death.
Lily "was sitting beside me in tears, saying, ‘I ...