Actor, James Nesbitt, speaks of his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease
Monday 15 March 2010
Film and TV star James Nesbitt has spoken about his experience of his mother, May, having Alzheimer’s disease. He said “I hadn’t seen her since Christmas as I’ve been filming a lot … I noticed that when you spend a bit of time away the deterioration is, in a sense, more marked. She wasn’t really aware of me when I visited her but by the end she knew me.”
He continued, “You realise that this is actually a real condition and it is everything you feared it would be and then you are just playing a waiting game because the condition varies so much from person to person and nobody can actually tell you anything.”
He explained why he has chosen to speak of his mother’s disease, saying “I think by talking about this I can offer other people hope that actually in a way it does get better because there are very painful stages to go through.”
For further information please see the article “Heartbreak for James Nesbitt as he reveals: “my mother doesn’t recognise me anymore” in the Mail newspaper at: