BEACH BOY BRIAN TRAPPED IN WHEELCHAIR!
Fears legend, 79, won’t walk again
TRAGIC Beach Boy Brian Wilson is so crippled pals fear he’ll never walk again and will be confined to a wheelchair the rest of his life, sources say.
The 79-year-old Fun, Fun, Fun singer — who also suffers from devastating emotional disorders — is now a prisoner in his own body after multiple surgeries to relieve chronic back pain left him a wreck, insiders dish.
Wracked by terrible agony when he moves and unsteady on his feet, “he rarely ventures out of his house and can no longer drive,” spills a source. “Brian can still play piano and sing. But that’s about it.”
The Beach Boys co-founder has struggled with agonizing back pain for years, according to sources.
In 2012, he underwent a “cutting edge procedure” for “lower back issues.” When the same pain flared up again following tour dates, he had the surgery “redone,” sources say.
In May 2018, the Wouldn’t It Be Nice singer had to postpone tour dates in order to have back surgery “immediately,” he revealed.
“I have been having some issues with my back that have very recently gotten worse,” he tweeted. “It runs in my family. [Brother] Carl had back problems as well. My doctors have told me that I need to have back surgery immediately.”
Wilson has battled a string of health issues over the years.
He’s fought obesity, addiction and has been in and out of mental health facilities.
And, as GLOBE reported in 2015, the Kokomo crooner barely survived the reign of terror of his quack psychologist, Dr. Eugene Landy, who died in 2006.
The dastardly doc, hired by Wilson’s first wife, Marilyn, in 1975, misdiagnosed and overmedicated Wilson but eventually managed to whip him into shape — at a cost of $430,000 a year.
In the late 1980s, Landy became Wilson’s legal guardian and forbade him from seeing his second wife, Melinda Ledbetter. But Wilson’s family got a court to rescind Landy’s conservatorship and ban him from any contact with the musician.
In 2019, Brian canceled all future tour dates citing the toll his surgeries took.
Meanwhile, his rep Jean Sievers insists he “is not in any pain whatsoever.” However, she admits that “for a few years” he’s used “a walking device to get around.”