Phil Collins has opened up about his health woes after going through a "frustrating last few years." "You know, I have a 24-hour live-in nurse to make sure I take my medication as I should do," Collins, 75, told BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball in a new interview released on Sunday, January 18. "I've had challenges with my knee... I had everything that could go wrong with me, did go wrong with me." The special BBC Eras radio series was commissioned in celebration of Collins' 75th birthday on January 30 and features him speaking in depth about his health issues. Phil - who is the father of Emily in Paris actress Lily Collins - confided in Ball, 55, that he'd recently celebrated two years of sobriety after experiencing trouble with his kidneys, per The Independent. "[I had] probably been drinking too much," he confessed. "I enjoyed coming off tour. Coming off the road... I thought, right, I'm gonna do all those things that I couldn't do." Lily Collins Shares Heartwarming Note on Dad Phil Collins' 74th Birthday Phil recalled that he was day-drinking at the height of his troubles but would cut himself off at around 6 p.m. each night. "I guess I had too much of it," he remembered. "I was never drunk, although I fell over a couple of times. But it is just one of those things that happened and it all caught up with me, and I spent months in hospital." Aside from his sobriety, Phil mentioned having an "an ongoing thing" with his mobility, as he'd recently endured his fifth knee surgery due to the wear and tear of playing music. (He performed his final concert in 2022.) "[I have one leg] that works," he explained. "I can walk, albeit with assistance, you know, crutches or whatever." The former Genesis frontman and drummer has been candid about his health woes over the years. After suffering a spinal injury on the band's 2007 reunion tour, Phil underwent surgery but later complained of numbness in his fingers. Phil's sensation in his fingers was partially restored in a 2015 operation but he could still only drum with his right hand. Phil Collins in November 2021. Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images Phil still chose to embark on a final Genesis reunion tour in 2021, though he needed to perform while seated for many of the shows. (Phil's son Nic Collins sat in for him on drums during Genesis' The Last Domino? Tour. Phil is a father of five children: Joely, 52, Simon, 48, Lily, 36, Nic, 21, and Matthew, 21.) In the 2024 documentary Phil Collins: Drummer First, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee admitted it was unlikely that he'd ever be able to regularly drum again. "If I can't do what I did as well as I did it, I'd rather relax and not do anything," he conceded. "If I wake up one day and I can hold a pair of drumsticks, then I'll have a crack of it. But I just feel like I've used up my air miles. It's still kind of sinking in a bit ... I've spent all my life playing drums. To be suddenly not be able to do, that is a shock." Phil revealed in a career retrospective for MOJO Magazine in February 2025 that he'd been "very sick" in recent years and thus was reluctant to try recording new music in his home studio. "I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens. But I'm not hungry for it anymore," he acknowledged. Phil Collins Reveals 14-Year Feud With Paul McCartney: 'You F--k' Later in the year, Phil's fans were understandably concerned when news broke that he'd been hospitalized once again for knee surgery in July 2025. However, Phil's representative later assured fans that there was no truth to rumors he was in hospice care. Phil started drumming at age 5 and later joined Genesis in 1970. Once frontman Peter Gabriel quit the prog-rock group in 1975, Phil took over as Genesis's lead singer. Phil steered Genesis' music in a more commercial direction and they went on to sell approximately 150 million records worldwide. He also sold around 150 million records as a solo artist.