Gena Rowlands has revealed she has Alzheimer’s disease.
The acting legend, 94, played the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie in The Notebook – a character who battled dementia on screen.
The heartbreaking health update was announced by her son, Nick Cassavetes, to Entertainment Weekly.
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Rowlands has had the disease for five years and is now ‘in full dementia’, her devastated family said.
Gena Rowlands has revealed she has Alzheimer’s disease
The acting legend, 94, played the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie in The Notebook – a character who battled dementia on screen
Cassavetes said, “I had my mom play the older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the past five years, she has had Alzheimer’s.
‘She has complete dementia. And it’s so crazy – we lived it, she played it, and now it’s up to us.”
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