Danny Glover has shared he's been living with Alzheimer's disease in an emotional new interview on the US morning show Today. He told NBC's Lesley Holt that he's been living with the condition for a number of years.
"I can live with it, in a sense. I'm sure as it advances, things are going to be different and changing," he noted in the candid interview, which you can watch here.
In a separate interview with People, Glover said of his diagnosis: "I'm still not accepting in my mind all parts of it. There are the moments that you keep remembering that validate the fact that you can remember stuff. And there are moments I'll never forget."
Glover rose to fame in celebrate action series Lethal Weapon as Roger Murtaugh, with his career also seeing him appear in the likes of The Color Purple, The Royal Tenenbaums, Saw, Angels in the Outfield and Predator 2.
More recent movie roles have included the likes of The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Sorry to Bother You.
In 2022, Glover received an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his lifelong dedication to charitable work and activism. He was presented with the honour by Alfre Woodard who said: "Danny Glover always does the right thing first, without testing the prevailing winds of public opinion."
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Talking to People, Glover's daughter Mandisa recalled that it was in that year that she started to notice a change in her father's behaviour.
"The history of my dad is that he remembers every single thing back to 1970, what corner he was standing on, who he spoke to, what they spoke about, what colour they were wearing, everything," she said.
"He'd tell you so much about his parents – and I've heard those stories over and over – and there would be pieces of the story missing. I said, 'I wonder what's going on.'"
He was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2023, but is now ready to share his diagnosis and be of service. "I don't feel like it's the end of my life. There's work to do," he said.
More information about Alzheimer's is available on the NHS and Alzheimer's Society websites. Resources for readers in the US are available via the National Institutes of Health.
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