Actor and activist Danny Glover, greatest identified for starring as an easygoing police officer within the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease.
The four-time Emmy Award nominee, who turns 80 on July 22, advised “Today” and People journal that he was identified with the progressive, memory-destroying disease three years in the past.
“I’m still not accepting in my mind all parts of it,” he advised People magazine. “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.”
More than 6 million folks within the United States and hundreds of thousands extra all over the world have Alzheimer’s, the most typical type of dementia.
Glover earned 4 Emmy Award nominations, and an honorary Oscar in 2022. Other awards got here from the NAACP and Black Entertainment Television, and he’s acquired nominations from the Screen Actors Guild.
Glover additionally served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998 to 2004. It focuses on poverty, disease and financial growth in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.