Gene Wilder's Widow Pens Heartfelt Essay on Actor's Battle With Alzheimer's | Hollywood Reporter: "After watching her husband contend with the consequences of his disease, Wilder emphasized that it also destroyed her. “There’s another particularly cruel aspect to the disease of Alzheimer’s, because in addition to destroying — piece by piece — the one who’s stricken with it, it ravages the life of the person caring for its victims. In our case, I was that person,” she wrote.
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