Gena Rowlands has revealed that she has Alzheimer’s.
The acting legend, 94, played the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie in The Notebook – a character who was battling 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,’ according to her devastated family.
Gena Rowlands has revealed that she has Alzheimer’s
The acting legend, 94, played the older version of Rachel McAdams ‘ Allie in The Notebook – a character who was battling dementia on-screen
Cassavetes said: ‘I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s.
‘She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.’
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