Sean Connery’s final days battling dementia were ‘hard to watch,’ he was in a ‘terrible state’

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Sean Connery’s friend is opening up about the famed actor’s final days in the new book, “Connery, Sean Connery,” where author Herbie J.

Pilato also spoke to sources and former co-stars of the late Oscar winner.The original James Bond died in his home in the Bahamas on Oct.

31, 2020 at 1:30 a.m. He was 90.According to his birth certificate, he died of “pneumonia, respiratory failure, old age [and] atrial fibrillation” — the latter being an irregular heart rate that can increase the risk of blood clots, strokes and heart failure.His wife, Micheline Roquebrune, also previously noted that he had a long battle with dementia.In “Connery, Sean Connery,” Connery’s pal, Brendan Lynch, said that he visited the actor before his passing.Because he wasn’t well at all, Micheline did ask me to try and see a bit more of him in the end,” Lynch recalled, as quoted in the book. “He didn’t want to have people that he didn’t know hanging around, so I would stop in to visit.”“I was crying at times to see this mountain of a man — this monumental human achievement in such a terrible state — frail (mentally and physically) unable to carry on a conversation or finish off a sentence,” Lynch continued. “To see his body weak and flawed at the end… it was very sad.

We tried to have a conversation. I tried to tell him what was going on in the sporting world, despite knowing that he wasn’t actually taking it all in.”Pilato added to Fox News Digital that the Scottish native “had some measure of dementia” when he died “at some beautiful ripe age.”“Dementia is not just a mental issue.