It’s a somber morning as a legend of the stage and screen, Danny Glover, has announced that he has been battling Alzheimer’s Disease for a number of years. According to Deadline, Glover and his family appeared on NBC’s The Today Show to reveal his current condition. The 79-year-old Glover stated, “I can live with it, in a sense. I’m sure as it advances, things are going to be different and changing.” He says he was diagnosed with the progressive neurodegenerative condition just before he was to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards before the Oscars back in January of 2022.
The star has said that since his diagnosis, his speech, his memory and his movements have slowed down, but he continues to remain active in his community in San Francisco. Glover says that he had been consulted by the Alzheimer’s Association for ways to stay physically active, manage blood pressure and diabetes, get quality sleep and stay socially connected.
His daughter, Mandisa Glover, told The Today Show, “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? 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.’”
The actor’s younger brother, Martin Glover, who was also present at the taping, vowed to be there for Danny. “He took me under his wing, and I love him to death. And I’m here to help him now. It’s my turn. We talk, and we share times about our parents, our mothers and our family. So it’s all about family.”
Glover’s career includes a wide span of films like the Lethal Weapon series, The Color Purple, Places in the Heart, Grand Canyon, Predator 2 and Beloved. Glover told an anecdote about when he was told he had gotten the role in The Color Purple, “My mother, on the same day that I was told I was going to play the role, she had an automobile accident. The one thing about my parents was their activism. A 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.”
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