Opening Up
Actor, 79, tells Today he anticipates his life will be changing as the disease progresses
Danny Glover revealed on Wednesday on Today that doctors diagnosed him with Alzheimer‘s disease sometime after he won an honorary Oscar in 2022. “I can live with [the diagnosis], in a sense,” he said on the program.
When Lester Holt asked the actor about whether he feared losing his memories, Glover, 79, said he understood the disease, which affects people’s memory and cognition. “As it advances, things gonna be different and changing,” he said. He has chosen to speak about the disease, which affects Black men at a rate double the national average, to remove stigmas associated with it. His daughter, Mandisa, told the program that she felt it was important for Glover to tell his own story.
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