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\nGlover with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon<\/p>\n
Lethal Weapon actor Danny Glover has revealed he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old announced the news during an interview on The Today Show in the US, during which he explained that he had been diagnosed “not long” after receiving an honorary Oscar in 2022.<\/p>\n
“I could live with it, in a sense. I\u2019m sure as it advances, things are going to be different and changing,” he said, adding that his movements, speech and memory have slowed.<\/p>\n
\nGlover with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon<\/p>\n
However, the support of his family, who he said “have got my back”, was getting him through.<\/p>\n
In the interview, Glover\u2019s daughter Mandisa added that it was “really important” for him to speak on his own terms.<\/p>\n
“And the time is now. What better time but now for him to speak for himself? It\u2019s important because people ask questions sometimes, and I don\u2019t want to be a dishonest person and say, ‘Oh, yeah, everything is all right. It\u2019s all great\u2019,” she said.<\/p>\n
Glover also spoke about his diagnosis with People magazine and said he was “still not accepting in my mind all parts of it”.<\/p>\n
“There are the moments that you keep remembering that validate the fact that you can remember stuff. And there are moments I\u2019ll never forget,” he said.<\/p>\n
However Glover added: “I don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s the end of my life. There\u2019s work to do. I still have my daughter, I have friends. I want to just say, your life continues.”<\/p>\n
Speaking about reconciling himself with the diagnosis he received three years ago, Glover said it was “in some sense acknowledging that it\u2019s happening to you and at the same time that there are millions of people suffering from it”.<\/p>\n
Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Glover has amassed more than 170 film and TV credits to his name.<\/p>\n
His film acting debut came in Escape From Alcatraz in 1979, but he rose to fame in the 1980s playing Roger Murtaugh alongside Mel Gibson\u2019s Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon films \u2013 and later starred in Places In The Heart, The Color Purple, and Predator 2.<\/p>\n
He has been awarded five Emmys and been nominated for four Grammys.<\/p>\n
Glover served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme from 1998-2004, working on global campaigns against poverty, disease and combating HIV\/Aids across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
Glover was also appointed as a goodwill ambassador for Unicef in 2004.<\/p>\n
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