Judi Dench said an eye condition has left her unable to read or perform on stage, more than a decade after she was first diagnosed.
\n\n“I can’t be on stage. I can’t do a play anymore. I can’t do a film anymore. I can’t read anymore,” Dench, 91, told the BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program Thursday.
\n\nThe Oscar-winning British actor was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in 2012, an eye disease that makes it difficult for those affected to see directly in front of them.
\n\nIn 2024, she told NPR’s “All Things Considered” that the condition had worsened and impacted her ability to work.
\n\n“And apart from the fact that I can walk straight past to an old friend, I can act it. And it doesn’t matter — in the great scheme of things, doesn’t matter,” she told “CBS Mornings” at the time.
\n\nShe told the BBC that she has to “make allowances” for the condition, which has worsened, and “just get on and don’t think about it too much.”
\n\nWhen asked by the BBC’s Emma Barnett how aging is going, Dench had one word in response: “Rubbish.”
\n\n“There’s nothing to say for it at all,” she continued. She…
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