Danny Miller's father Vince is battling dementia, according to multiple reports. Miller lives a couple of hours' drive from his father, and he moved his family to Yorkshire for his job on Emmerdale, reports indicate. The specific type of dementia and how long his father has been battling it have not been disclosed, nor is his current condition or prognosis clear.
Charley Webb's mother Helen died last week after a 12-year struggle with Alzheimer's, multiple reports indicate. Webb was on Good Morning Britain not long ago talking about her mother's Alzheimer's, though the exact date of her death has not been confirmed.
It's sad, and, you know, me and my dad were thick as thieves at one point, and, you know, losing him over and over again is awful.
Danny Miller appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday, March 23, according to multiple reports, where he discussed his father's dementia and Webb's experience.
I live a couple of hours drive from my dad now, which breaks my heart, but I have my own family.
I've got a job up in Yorkshire, on Emmerdale, and being around in Manchester isn't easy anymore, so I moved my family up there, and it was kind of a really tough thing to do, because I'm not there for my dad as much as I'd like to be. I miss him terribly.
But you know, the days where I do see him again, I often get, you know, a good visit, and I usually find if I play Matt Monroe - my dad was a comedian, but he's a singer as well - and Matt Monroe was a friend of his.
I played it one day, and he just kind of pointed at it, and he said, 10th of December, 1970, whatever, and I Googled it, and he was right. I think it was either his birthday or when the single was released, and from then on I kind of thought, I'm gonna do that, so I do it as a normal thing. Now I'll put it on the side and just play and just talk to him normally. I tend to get a better visit.
Charley Webb is a good friend of mine. She was on here [GMB] with you guys not long ago, talking about her mum's Alzheimer's, and unfortunately, she passed, and it's so sad.
Charley was a massive inspiration for me to why I spoke out about it. It made me want to talk out, it made me want to be vulnerable, and allow myself to sort of put out an unfiltered video.
I wanted to just try and allow people to see me to be someone completely different and be vulnerable and talk about these things in hope that it will sort of resonate with somebody somewhere and they can relate to it and go, actually, I'm going to go out and get a memory test.
That is the beginning of how to sort of get that diagnosis for dementia and it's something that, you know, I want to fly the flag for because I don't want dementia to destroy the families as it's destroyed ours.