Judi Dench gives heartbreaking update on worsening…
Judi Dench is opening up about her harrowing eye condition.
The English actress, who is about to flip 91 on December 9, is detailing life with superior macular degeneration
Dench appeared on ITV on Nov. 25, alongside longtime good friend Ian McKellen and said she “can’t see anymore.”
Judi Dench on ITV News on Nov. 25, 2025. ITV News/YouTube
The “GoldenEye” actress, who was identified with the disease in 2012, confessed that she will be able to’t read or watch tv.
“You don’t [see me on camera anymore] because I can’t see,” explained Dench. “I’ve got, you know, that thing.”
McKellen, 86, who starred reverse the Hollywood vet in 1979’s “Macbeth,” teased that people may still see her.
Judi Dench and Ian McKellen on ITV. ITV News/YouTube
“Yes, and I can see your outline and I know you so well,” Dench responded. “But I can’t recognize anybody anymore.”
McKellen requested the actress if she ever approaches “total strangers and say, ‘Lovely to see you again,’” which bought a giggle out of Dench.
She cheekily replied: “Sometimes!”
Judi Dench gives an update on her eye condition. ITV News/YouTube
In January, Dench bought candid on the tough eye condition, explaining she will be able to’t exit alone anymore.
“Somebody will always be with me. I have to now because I can’t see and I will walk into something or fall over,” she shared while on British entrepreneur Trinny Woodall’s “Fearless” podcast at the time.
Dench admitted that she’s “always nervous before going to something.”
“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,” she added with a giggle.
Dame Judi Dench poses backstage on November 17, 2024. Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images
AMD is a common condition and stands as the main trigger of everlasting and speedy loss of imaginative and prescient in older adults, per the National Institutes of Health.
Dench has beforehand touched on how the attention condition has affected her 60-year performing profession.
When requested at an event in May 2024 if she had any upcoming tasks in the works, Dench responded, “No, no. I can’t even see.”
Judi Dench wins the Oscar for her half in the film “Shakespeare in Love” during the 71st Academy Awards on March 21 1999. AFP via Getty Images
Dame Judi Dench attends the launch of the 2 hundredth Burlington Christmas at Burlington Arcade on November 12, 2019. Dave Benett/Getty Images for Burlington Arcade
In 2023, Dench revealed while on “The Graham Norton Show” that she was discovering it more durable and more durable to read scripts and be taught her strains.
The Oscar winner added: “It has become impossible and, because I have a photographic memory, I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page.”
In 2021, Dench told Vision Foundation that she asks her pals to help her with strains by studying them aloud.
Judi Dench on July 18, 1960. Getty Images
“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” the actress explained at the time. “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!”
Dench last starred in the 2022 British drama “Allelujah” and made a cameo in Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell’s Christmas comedy “Spirited” that same 12 months.
Judi Dench performing as ‘Titania’ in the Shakespeare play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Getty Images
On her IMDb web page, Dench is listed as the voice of Titania in the upcoming short “Forgeries of Jealousy.”
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