Richard Madeley has opened up on how his tragic mum's dementia battle had affected him before she died. The 63-year-old journalist lost his mother Mary Claire in March 2014, aged 82, after she suffered a three year lung cancer battle alongside the terrible illness.
Richard is now backing Alzheimer's Society's emergency appeal to raise funds for those in need during the coronavirus pandemic, and has revealed how he felt while watching his mother's health deteriorate at the time. "She was diagnosed with lung cancer and dementia on the same day, and at the time we thought that was two completely separate conditions," he told PA. "But actually it later transpired that if you get lung cancer there is a risk of dementia, it comes with the