Marcia Gay Harden recounts moment her mother forgot who she was amid battle with Alzheimer's disease
She has been a vocal proponent for Alzheimer's awareness and has been candid about her mother Beverly's heartbreaking battle with the illness.
And now Marcia Gay Harden has opened up about the very first time her mother forgot who she was.
In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir The Seasons Of My Mother posted to People, the actress, 58, writes her mom asked her over the phone, 'I'm sorry, but who are you?'
'I'm sorry, but who are you?' Marcia Gay Harden has opened up about the very first time her mom forgot who she was in her upcoming memoir, The Seasons Of My Mother
Marcia admits she had been 'prepared' for the painful moment.
'It'd been coming on gradually, so there wasn't really a shock,' she confessed.
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She assured her mother: '"It's okay if you don't remember me"... "I will always remember you."'
'Several months later [after the phone call], she said to me, "I know there is something important about you, but I can't remember what it is," and then later, "When you walked in the room, I felt something happy, like there was something about your face that was special to me."'
Helping out: Marcia and her siblings help support their mother by pitching in for her full-time care in her native Texas (pictured April 2007 with her mother)
Beverly was diagnosed with the disease in her early 70's, and is now under full-time care in Texas.
Marcia and her siblings all pitch in to help out their mother.
Though the disease has deteriorated her mother's memory, Marcia writes the very 'core' of her has been untouched.
'I think of it as her light that cannot be extinguished': Though the disease has deteriorated her mother's memory, Marcia writes the very 'core' of her has been untouched (pictured 2017 in Studio City)
'I think of it as her light that cannot be extinguished,' she writes.
The Fifty Shades Freed actress will be releasing her memoir, The Seasons Of My Mother, on May 1.
Marcia has been playing Dr. Leanne Rorish on Code Black since 2015.
She is a Tony Award winning actress who received an Academy Award for her role in the 2000 biopic Pollock.
Hitting bookshelves: The Code Black star will be releasing her memoir, The Seasons Of My Mother, on May 1 (pictured March 2018)
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