Sylvester Stallone’s wife revealed the reason why her husband was walking with a cane after he was spotted hobbling down the red carpet at the Kennedy Center Honors.

“We just finished our eighth back surgery,” Jennifer Flavin, 57, told Fox News’s Raymond Arroyo during a pre-ceremony chat. “That’s why he has a cane.

“He’s had three neck surgeries; knees, elbows, shoulders... He’s been through it, and we need one more surgery on the back, so after we finish Tulsa King, we’re gonna head back to the operating room.”

“He’s still punching, though,” she added with a grin. Stallone cut a striking figure as he strolled onto the red carpet dressed in a stylish black tuxedo and sporting a matching gold-tipped cane.

While the star, 79, has often been candid about the laundry list of injuries he’s

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