Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen shares heartbreaking health update

Sir Ian McKellen has shared a heartbreaking health update months after falling off stage during a performance of Player Kings in June.

Ian McKellen, best known for appearing as Magneto in the original X-Men franchise and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, fell from the stage during a fight scene in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Noël Coward theatre.

The 85-year-old was playing Falstaff, and though he was set to make a “speedy and full recovery” following his fall, which caused a fractured wrist and chipped vertebrae, he was later reported as still experiencing “agonising pains” two months later.

He has now offered a further health update on his general health during an interview with BBC Breakfast.

“I forget

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