Judi Dench says she can’t read and write due to degenerative disease

British actress Judi Dench, 87, has revealed that as a result of advanced macular degeneration, she can no longer read or write and sometimes struggles to cut back on her own food. The illness affects Dench’s vision, despite this, she says that she does not intend to end her career.

“I went to a dinner party a few weeks ago and it was so dark that I said to my partner, David, who was next to me, ‘Do I have anything on my plate?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ cut? So he said, ‘Yes,’ and I asked, ‘Would you do that?'”

“He cut it and handed me something on a fork and that’s how I ate it. I don’t know if I finished, I don’t know what I did. I probably got it all up and to the side of the plate.” Then she commented on a possible return to the stage or film sets.

“As far as I know, there are no things for now. I don’t want to retire. I’m not doing much at the moment because I can’t see. It’s bad. But I have to teach myself a new way to learn,” she added, who said have photographic memory.

Advanced macular degeneration is a disease that affects a part of the retina called the macula and leads to progressive loss of central vision. Typically, the disease happens in people over 50, although it is also possible in younger people.