Danny Glover Shares Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

The actor, director and activist Danny Glover has disclosed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

On Wednesday, Danny made an appearance on the US’ Today show, where he shared that he has been living with the condition for several years.

“I can live with it, in a sense. I’m sure as it advances, things are going to be different and changing,” the 79-year-old told presenter Lester Holt.

During a separate interview with People magazine, he explained that he was diagnosed with the condition in 2023.

“I’m still not accepting in my mind all parts of it,” he said. “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.”

The performer’s daughter, Mandisa, also appeared on Today during her father’s interview, stating: “I think it’s really important for him to have control of his own narrative, of his own life story. That’s really important.

“And the time is now. What better time but now for him to speak for himself?”

She added: “It’s important because people ask questions sometimes, and I don’t want to be a dishonest person and say, ‘Oh, yeah, everything is all right. It’s all great’.”

Danny’s on-screen career began in the late 1970s, and he’s since gone on to appear in huge film projects like The Color Purple, Lethal Weapon, Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, the horror movie Saw and the movie adaptation of the musical Dreamgirls.

More recently, he has appeared in films including Sorry To Bother You, The Old Man & The Gun, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, and Jumanji: The Next Level.

A five-time Emmy nominee and four-time Grammy contender, in 2021, Danny was bestowed with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his “outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes” by the Academy Awards.