Posted on 02/20/2017 5:41:43 PM PST by ColdOne
The 66-year-old actor, best recognized as heartthrob Keith Partridge on the 1970s series “The Partridge Family,” has admitted to PEOPLE Magazine he is faced with the neurological disease.
“I was in denial, but a part of me always knew this was coming,” said Cassidy to the celebrity news publication about his diagnosis.
“I want to focus on what I am, who I am and how I’ve been without any distractions,” he also said on his decision to stop touring. “I want to love. I want to enjoy life.”
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IM guessing alcoholic encephalopathy is playing a HUGE role in this!
Poor David. The fact that he is also likely an alcoholic who has abused drugs for a long time doesn’t help either. That track record may have brought the dementia to him much younger than it had to be. I do hope he really does retire.
It was sad enough seeing Glenn Campbell struggling through his last tour years back.
I was reading a little bit about this father. Jack Cassidy had some real problems.
Yes, he did.
He was my teenage heart throb. I can still play his music from his Partridge Family days (have all my original albums) and enjoy his beautiful voice. But it was those hazel eyes and smile that made me swoon that summer when I first saw him guest star on Medical Center, before he sang, “Only A Moment Ago,” I Really Want to Know You,” “Brown Eyes,” etc.
I wanted him to wait for me to grow up.
God Bless you, David Cassidy. I feel so sorry for what you are going through, I wish you the very best.
Since I have white cell brain disease I am at risk for this. I figure it’ll give me an excuse for bad behavior and am thinking about starting to practice.
Nobody played a better murdering psychopath.
Several alcohol and drug related incidents, for David, recently.
Sad.
Jack was diagnosed as bi-polar, but refused to stop drinking heavily. However, Shirley Jones seemed happy with him. Jack fell asleep on a sofa after having drank a few, and while holding a cigarette. Jack is said to have accidently burnt himself to death in this manner. After Jack died, she matched up with Marty Ingels. To the average person, Marty, with his crude brashness, seemed to be the exact opposite of Shirley Jones, with her ladylike gracefulness.
They separated a few times, but remained married till Marty died in 2015. Sometimes, opposites really do attract.
I loved him in Columbo.
both, father and son, had a smile to swoon over.
Heavy drinking definitely seems to have correlation with Alzheimers/dementia.
I think that head injuries may play a part as well...My sister never drank, but was in Atleast two car accidents where she struck her head....She is in stage 6 of 7 for early onset dementia...
It’s a terrible way to go.
Korsakoff syndrome
Too much booze.....the condition is irreversible.
There ya go! focus on the positives!
LOL
CC
David should read up on the benefits of coconut oil and turmeric in YouTube.
I think she may have had a slightly naughty side as well. I refer you to the uncut version of the "Cheyenne Social Club."
Mark
You are correct. In Shirley’s latest book, an autobio. called ‘Shirley Jones’ from 2013, she refers to Jack Cassidy as her first lover and “sexual Svengali”. Then goes on to elaborate and candidly describe all the ‘lessons now learned’.
I’m certainly no Puritan or prude, but just hearing the premise of Shirley’s book made me not want to buy or read it.
It was as though a favorite Aunt, now in her dotage,(or someone as wholesome as Mary Tyler Moore!) had printed a few volumes describing how she acted out all the positions in the Kama Sutra, from the perspective of an overstuffed mattress. Color illustrations included. I just didn’t even want to know all that about her. I don’t know how many copies she sold of that book.
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