Judi Dench, 90, reveals she can no longer go out alone due to the severity of her sight loss as she shares fears she could 'fall over or walk into something'
Judi Dench, 90, reveals she can no longer go out alone due to the severity of her sight loss as she shares fears she could 'fall over or walk into something'
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Judi Dench has revealed her sight loss has become so advanced she needs a guide when she leaves her house. The veteran actress, 90, first revealed in 2012 she is suffering with macular degeneration in her eyes, which can cause permanent and rapid central vision loss, and is the number one cause of vision loss in people over 50.
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Judi has now shared a bleak update on her condition, admitting on the new episode of Trinny Woodall's Fearless podcast: 'Somebody will always be with me. I have to now because I can't see and I will walk into something or fall over. 'I'm always nervous before going to something.
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'I have no idea why… I'm not good at being on my own at all, nor would I be now. 'And fortunately, I don't have to now because I pretend to have no eyesight.'. Judi Dench has revealed her sight loss has become so advanced she needs a guide when she leaves her house.
The veteran actress first revealed in 2012 she is suffering with macular degeneration in her eyes, which can cause permanent and rapid central vision loss. During a 2021 event for the London-based Vision Foundation, Judi opened up about how she struggles to read scripts due to her rapidly fading vision.
She said: 'You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult. 'I've had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. 'So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won't notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!'.
