Billy Connolly has contemplated suicide on numerous occasions since being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.

Asked if he has ever thought about ending his life, he said: "Yeah sometimes I give it a bit of thought when I'm in bed. I think, 'Well this is forever, this isn't going to get better, it's going to get worse.' But then I try and change my mind and I try and meditate and move away from it sideways.

"The guy who told me I had it said to me 'You realise it's incurable?' I thought he could have said 'We have yet to find a cure' or something like that to put a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.' I'm okay at the moment but it comes and goes. Sometimes I have trouble getting out of bed and I walk strangely. Turning over (in bed) is difficult. Turning from one side to the other can be quite a complicated manoeuvre."

But the chronic neurological disorder has now started to make the actor drool but he's trying to see the positives.

Speaking on a US radio station earlier this week, he said: "The body isn't responding sometimes but it is quite interesting as the body changes. I have started to drool as well, that's nice. That's going to make me really attractive."

Billy was diagnosed with Parkinson's three years ago - in the same week he was told he had prostate cancer and had two hearing aids fitted - but recently admitted he goes to work to "stay positive" about his battle with the disease.