Judi Dench: 'I'm not going to be beaten' Star on adapting to her 'ridiculous' condition
msn.comDench was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, AMD for short, which is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK according to the Macular Society.
Affecting the middle part of an individual's vision, although it does not cause total blindness, it can make everyday activities, such as reading and recognising faces, difficult.
Speaking about her own battle with the condition, Dench has admitted that she has had to give up her favourite past times such as reading a book or doing a crossword puzzle, but has cleverly been able to find ways to adapt to the condition as well. "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," she revealed in a past interview. "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!""A couple of years ago I stopped driving," she began, before going on to call it one of the most "traumatic" and "appalling" moments of her life. "But I just know I'll kill somebody if I get behind the wheel of a car now," she continued to say. DON'T MISS: Sean Connery's widow on 'devastating effect' dementia had on Bond star - 'Took its toll'"I don't want to say.
I can see enough. . . You adapt to it. So I ignore it altogether. "Aged 77 at the time of diagnosis, Dench began to suffer from AMD at a relatively old age, with some individuals being diagnosed as early as 55.
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