{"id":905688,"date":"2026-07-01T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/905688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:18:16","slug":"danny-glover-reveals-alzheimers-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/905688\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Glover Reveals Alzheimer\u2019s Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tActor Danny Glover<\/a> has revealed that he has been living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease for a number of years, telling former NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt in a Today<\/a> show interview, \u201cI can live with it, in a sense. I\u2019m sure as it advances, things are going to be different and changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 79-year-old Glover, accompanied by his family, said during the exclusive interview that he was diagnosed with the progressive neurodegenerative condition just before he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the January 2022 Governors Awards just before the Oscars.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the Today interview below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe disease impacts memory, movement and speech. Glover said that since being diagnosed his movements, speech and memories have slowed, but that he remains active, attending events in his San Francisco community.<\/p>\n

\n\tGlover also indicated that the Alzheimer\u2019s Association has provided advice on staying physically active, managing blood pressure and diabetes, getting quality sleep and staying socially connected.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s really important for him to have control of his own narrative, of his own life story,\u201d Glover\u2019s daughter, Mandisa, told Holt. \u201cThat\u2019s really important. And the time is now. What better time but now for him to speak for himself?<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cIt\u2019s important because people ask questions sometimes, and I don\u2019t want to be a dishonest person and say, \u2018Oh, yeah, everything is all right. It\u2019s all great.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lethal Weapon star, who has nearly 200 film and TV acting credits, spoke to Holt about his acting career, saying that he considers 1985\u2019s The Color Purple his most personal film due to the fact that his mother had recently died.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy mother, on the same day that I was told I was going to play the role, she had an automobile accident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe one thing about my parents was their activism,\u201d Glover said. \u201cA sense of being and belonging and making the contribution. When I saw the Montgomery bus boycott (in 1955-56), I knew I wanted to be like those people. I wanted to be in that moment and part of the role.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGlover\u2019s youngest brother Martin Glover also appeared on Today, pledging his support. \u201cHe took me under his wing, and I love him to death. And I\u2019m here to help him now. It\u2019s my turn. We talk, and we share times about our parents, our mothers and our family. So it\u2019s all about family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Danny Glover has revealed that he has been living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease for a number of years,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":905689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,4354,171,20644,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-905688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-danny-glover","tag-entertainment","tag-today","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116845393430926783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}