“He wants to live life and he doesn’t want people grieving him or for him while he is going through this terrible disease, he just wants the people in his life to be present and as happy as they can be, he wants to always surround himself with positivity, that is a major thing that is driving him nowadays.”

‘Very hopeful’

Despite the horror of his decline, the star vows to keep fighting the disease: “I will fly to Germany and eat the head off a rattlesnake if [doctors] told me that that would help,” he joked with Sawyer. “I’ll assume the risk.”

He added, “I’m very hopeful … I don’t think this is the end of my story. And whether it is or it isn’t, I’m gonna carry that idea with me.”

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