The 67-year-old "My Left Foot" star has lost sight in her left eye after she tripped from a flight of stairs. The accident has also left scars on her forehead, reported Contactmusic.
"My eyes are beginning to fail me now, I'm completely blind in this (left) eye and this (right) eye is beginning to go. You can see the scars there (on forehead). I fell down some steps and split my head open. I was sober, promise," Fricker said.
The actress also said that of late it had become difficult for her to read books.
"I can't read books, I used to read four, five books a week. So I have a Kindle with big print. The iPad is great, because you can enlarge the print on it," she added.