{"id":50868,"date":"2026-11-11T22:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/days-of-our-lives-star-reveals-his-secret-parkinsons-diagnosis-inspired-his-characters-storyline\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:34:56","slug":"days-of-our-lives-star-reveals-his-secret-parkinsons-diagnosis-inspired-his-characters-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/days-of-our-lives-star-reveals-his-secret-parkinsons-diagnosis-inspired-his-characters-storyline\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Our Lives star reveals his secret Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis inspired his character\u2019s storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Days of Our Lives<\/em> star James Reynolds, who has played Abe Carver for 45 years, has revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease \u2014\u00a0and it is being written into the long-running soap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While speaking to Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> the 80-year-old actor said that he received the diagnosis years ago, but initially planned on masking his symptoms<\/a> on the set of the series.<\/p>\n

However, there came a point where Reynolds could no longer hide the tremors and balance issues <\/a>that come with the progressive, neurodegenerative movement disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it kind of goes back to when I thought I was hiding it,\u201d the Daytime Emmy-winning actor told ET<\/em> in the interview released Tuesday. \u201cThe writers also wanted to incorporate because it was obvious. It was obvious. And we play life here.\u201d <\/p>\n

Reynolds \u2014 who is the longest-running Black actor in a single series in TV history \u2014 went on to say that his character \u201covercomes a lot\u201d and \u201cdeals with a lot of things with humor as well as understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Days of Our Lives star James Reynolds, who has played Abe Carver for 45 years, has revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease \u2014\u00a0and 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[708,36],"class_list":["post-50868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-lifestyle","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}