Edited sentence: " I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication.But with your help, if we all do everything we can to eradicate this disease, when I'm in my fifties I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling”.Fox has admitted to ABC's Diane Sawyer that he did NOT take his medication when he testified before Congress.Fox’s autobiography ‘Lucky Man’ in which he admits to deliberately going off his medication when he appeared under oath before Congress:.He also admitted in his autobiography:.It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard.One line in particular from my prepared statement got a lot of play: "In my forties, I can expect challenges most people wouldn't face until their seventies and eighties, if ever.The following is an excerpt from Michael J.“Snippets of my testimony were featured on several of the nightly news broadcasts