Phil Collins , 75, revealed on August 2 that his five children were summoned to his hospital bedside during a seven-month medical crisis that began in November 2023. Collins told The Sunday Times that doctors were weighing whether to keep him on life support as his kidneys and other organs began failing. Collins said he was unaware that his family feared he might not survive. His longtime manager, who had worked with Collins for 50 years, contacted daughters Lily Collins and Joely Collins and sons Simon, Nicolas, and Matthew so they could be with him. The Family Reunion Came After the Scare Collins was initially discharged three days before Christmas but soon returned to intensive care, according to the interview. The musician said the hospitalization was connected to his alcohol use, and he later told BBC Radio 2 that he had been drinking during the day after coming off the road, eventually realizing that “it all caught up with me.” After leaving the hospital, Collins and his family spent four days together at London’s Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge later that year. Collins said Lily, then 37, cried beside him and told him she never expected they would get those moments together; Collins described the reunion as extraordinary. Collins said he has not had a drink since the hospitalization and told the BBC earlier this year that he had reached two years of sobriety. He has also said he relies on a 24-hour live-in nurse to help manage his medication, adding another chapter to the singer’s candid account of his “frustrating last few years.”