Suspecting that country legend Kris Kristofferson’s painful health symptoms were related to Alzheimer’s, doctors started treating him with medication that only worsened his condition.
After he was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, and received the correct course of treatment, Kristofferson is now a healthy 86-year-old.
And, despite his immortality as a superstar, he accepts his mortality and wants the first three lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, “Bird on a Wire,” etched in his tombstone.
The moment Kris Kristofferson shared his vocals, the world knew a star was born. His sky-blue eyes, silvery hair paired with a perfectly groomed beard, has kept him a fan favorite since he first started his career almost 55 years ago.
The beard, he says was not planned. “I had pneumonia and I had to go into hospital for a week, didn’t shave the whole time,” Kristofferson shared with the Guardian.
“And when I came out, some magazine took a picture of me and called it ‘the new face of country music’. Ever since then Willie, too, has just looked as wild as heck.”
Taking credit for Willie Nelson’s beard, the star of Marvel’s Blade franchise adds, “You know, he didn’t even have a beard back then. I had the very first beard in all of country music. And he used to give me a lot of shit for it!”
In addition to being a trendsetter for facial hair, the Texas-born Casanova is an Oxford scholar, a defensive back, a boxer, a helicopter pilot, a superstar actor and musician, and a family man, to name a few...CONTINUE READING