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Kevin Whately bravely relives worst memory of his mother's Alzheimer's battle

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When actor Kevin Whately got a call to say his mother, Mary, had been found wandering the streets in the dark, looking for her dog in just her nightie, he felt completely powerless.

Mary, a retired grammar school teacher, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years earlier, but her doctors felt she was still well enough to continue living alone at her Northumberland home. “Her little dog had died, but it had sent her into a tailspin because she assumed he was out in the cold and dark, so she went looking for him,” explains Kevin, best known as Robert “Robbie” Lewis, Inspector Morse’s workaholic sergeant. “It was a difficult time,” he says. “Over the years we’d tried to get her to come and live with us in the South, but she was adamant she

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