Owen Wilson reveals that his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Owen Wilson says that while his father having Alzheimer’s disease is “A rough thing,” he also knows that there are things to be grateful, for, including that his father is being cared for at at home and he has plenty of people around who love him.
“It is a rough thing,” Wilson told the Dallas Morning News in his first public comment about his 74-year-old father’s illness. “It’s one of those things where if somebody had said 10 years ago, when my dad and I were joking around, having a putting match, that this is the position your dad’s going to be in, where he basically needs 24-hour care, you’d think, ‘Gosh, I won’t be able to handle that. That’s just not possible,'” Wilson said.
Owen Wilson grew up in Dallas and revealed that he’s taking everything day by day. “You just have to do your best to deal with it. You’ve got no choice but to accept it. And then, you sort of still look for the things to be grateful for.”
Owen Wilson’s father is a longtime executive. He worked on the TV affiliate, KERA, during the mid sixties and it was a major influence on his acting career.
“For me and my brothers, there just wasn’t a bigger influence on us,” Owen Wilson, who has starred in movies including Wedding Crashers, told the newspaper.
Owen Wilson is currently promoting his new movie No Escape, a thriller about a businessman who is on vacation with his family but is forced to save his family after the government is taken over by terrorists.Wilson, 46, said it’s a role he couldn’t have played without first becoming a father himself.
