Game of Thrones star Jonathan Pryce opened up about his aunt’s devastating dementia on Good Morning Britain today. Viewers branded the actor a “national treasure” for his candid interview.
in which the 74-year-old actor shared his heartbreak at his aunt's battle. Jonathan told hosts Ben Shepard and Kate Garraway: “If you’re doing things that are unnatural, like putting your keys in the fridge, or forgetting your phone number - usually it is a sign that something is happening.” When Ben then asked about his own experiences of seeing a relative suffer from dementia, he continued: "I don’t want to make too big a thing out of my auntie, but if anything she had dementia like she was in her mid 90s.
He added: "There was still the same person there, she was still as nice to everybody. I remember an instance where she was being assessed by a young doctor and he said, ‘Do you know who I am?’ And she replied, ‘Well if you don’t I’m sure I don’t.’ "And she knew she knew me, she couldn’t quite place me.
She’d get confused." Ben said: “She described her nephew that was an actor to you though - she was describing you to yourself?” Jonathan replied: “She was very proud to tell people in my presence that she had a nephew called Jonathon Pryce that was an actor - yep.” Ben said: “That must be so difficult because of course you want to encourage the communication, but knowing there is a slipping of her consciousness of going on around her, must be very hard as a family member to watch. “Yeah,” Jonathan said. “Well I think that’s what’s good about this push to get people diagnosed.
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