{"id":22316,"date":"2026-07-13T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=22316"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:06:28","slug":"we-have-all-sung-his-songs-he-is-a-legend-of-music-yet-just-now-his-illness-and-pain-have-crushed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=22316","title":{"rendered":"We have all sung his songs; he is a legend of music; yet just now, his illness and pain have crushed him."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phil Collins, once the unstoppable heartbeat of Genesis and a solo icon, is now confronting a reality he never wanted to face. At 70, he can no longer hold a drumstick, his spine damaged from decades bent over the kit, vertebrae crushing his spinal cord. Years of pain, a devastating fall, and surgery have left him dependent on a cane and often a wheelchair. The stage that once felt like home has become unreachable ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the physical decline is only part of his heartbreak. As his health worsened, his private life shattered. His ex\u2011wife Orianne Cevey secretly married another man in Las Vegas, then allegedly tried to keep the affair hidden. The fallout was brutal: accusations, legal threats, and a bitter battle over his $40 million Miami home. Forced to sell the house he loved, Collins watched his sanctuary slip away just as his body did the same. What remains is a man marked by music, pain, and a dignity tested but not entirely broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Collins, once the unstoppable heartbeat of Genesis and a solo icon, is now confronting a reality he never wanted to face. 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