ITV News presenter Alastair Stewart has opened up about the 'cruel' reality of living with dementia after being diagnosed.The 72 year old, who is best known for his career on ITV News and GB News, retired from broadcasting last year after announcing that he had been diagnosed with dementia three years prior.
In an interview with The Times on Wednesday 25 September, Alastair spoke about his struggle with the disease, which affects memory, behaviour and motor control.
He admitted that one of the "cruelties of dementia" is that his wife Sally Ann Jung, who he shares four children with after marrying in 1978, has been "reduced" to his carer. "Sal’s my lover, life partner, my wife since 1978, but she’s also the person who tells me what time to get up and when to change my shirt," he said. "It was Sal who came up with this fabulous expression: she said, 'You’ve got to come out.' So I did, but I felt dreadful about it.
It’s humiliating." Opening up about being diagnosed with dementia, Alastair revealed that his agent noticed that his emails were uncharacteristically "full of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes" while he worked at GB News - and he began to arrive at work at the wrong time. "The girls in my production team, who were loyal and brilliant, said, 'It’s six in the morning.
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