Phil Collins is sharing how his near-death experience impacted his kids.
Over two years after he nearly died due to his struggles with alcoholism, the former Genesis frontman detailed his daughter Lily Collins’ emotional reaction to his health battle when the entire family got together last Christmas.
“It was wonderful to hear their stories of how they feared they wouldn’t see me again,” Phil shared of his kids during an Oct. 2 appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “And Lily, for example, she just burst into tears because she now has a child.”
“She said, ‘I never thought that my child would get to know her grandfather,’” he continued of Lily, who shares daughter Tove, 20 months, with husband Charlie McDowell. “It was very touching, very moving.”
As the “You’ll Be in My Heart” singer emphasized, “It was a monumental thing.”
