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Sir Billy Connolly says that he is the first thing he thinks about every day
Sir Billy Connolly has made his research work with Parkinson's disease.
The Glasgow-born comedian was diagnosed with the disease five years ago.
He said that he has been in touch with scientists at Harvard University in Massachusetts whose stem cell institute is a key leader in Parkinson's research.
His comments come in a book being serialized in a Sunday newspaper.
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He said having Parkinson's is the first thing he thinks about every day and that the hardest part of it is "coming to grips with the fact that it's never going to go away".
In the book, serialized in the Mail on Sunday, the 75-year-old said: "I've been talking to guys working on it at Harvard and told them I'll be guinea pig for them.
"I think they are going to take me up on that."
Sir Billy was diagnosed with prostate cancer – for which he had successful surgery – in the same week he was told he had Parkinson's in 2013.
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