Days of Our Lives star James Reynolds, who has played Abe Carver for 45 years, has revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease — and it is being written into the long-running soap.
While speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the 80-year-old actor said that he received the diagnosis years ago, but initially planned on masking his symptoms on the set of the series.
However, there came a point where Reynolds could no longer hide the tremors and balance issues that come with the progressive, neurodegenerative movement disorder.
“Well, it kind of goes back to when I thought I was hiding it,” the Daytime Emmy-winning actor told ET in the interview released Tuesday. “The writers also wanted to incorporate because it was obvious. It was obvious. And we play life here.”
Reynolds — who is the longest-running Black actor in a single series in TV history — went on to say that his character “overcomes a lot” and “deals with a lot of things with humor as well as understanding.”
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