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Bad Sisters actress Anne-Marie Duff has candidly spoken about her brother, Eddie’s diagnosis of early-onset dementia.
Ann-Marie – who was born to Irish parents but raised in West London – revealed that her brother, who is “only a couple of years older than her,” began experiencing symptoms about 14 years ago.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 during Women’s Hour, the actress detailed her brother’s symptoms and how he inevitably got his diagnosis.
She also touched on the ups and downs of it all, adding: “You are watching someone slowly vanish before your eyes, but the love doesn’t vanish, and I’d say that is one of the gifts of all of it.
There’s a love so present in the room, an unspoken version of your relationship that exists in a completely other element, it’s so beautiful.
“He doesn’t know who I am, but he knows I love him,” she added.
In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Ann-Marie talked about when she was first made aware of her brother’s condition when she received a call from his GP about an incident that occurred there whilst she was between shows at the National Theatre.
Eddie had experienced a panic attack in the doctor’s office and didn’t know where he was which resulted in him being admitted to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen’s Square, London, for three weeks.
It was sad because he couldn’t accept it and he couldn’t fully comprehend it.
“It’s quite aggressive when it’s very early onset, he just said, ‘OK, when I get to the other side of this…’ It was very sad,” she told the publication.
According to the HSE, Dementia is described as “young onset’” when symptoms develop before the age of 65.
