CNN founder Ted Turner says he's suffering from Lewy body dementia

CNN founder Ted Turner talks about Lewy body dementia.

79-year-old media mogul talks with Ted Koppel in new interview released Sunday CBS Sunday morning on how the progressive brain disorder affected him.

"It's a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer's disease," said Turner, after revealing that he had initially been misdiagnosed with manic depression. But not so bad. Alzheimer's is fatal. "

"Thank God, I do not have that," he adds, "but I also, let's say – the one who – I do not remember his name … dementia, I do not remember my disease.

Turner says that he is tired, exhausted and forgetful because of the illness, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, is the second type of progressive dementia after dementia of Alzheimer's disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, her symptoms may also include movement disorders, sleep disturbances and depression.

During the interview, Mr. Turner also discusses what he is doing today and why he never ran for office. 1991 to 2001.

"Well, I got closer to the race at the post when I was married to Jane Fonda. And when I talked to her – she was married to a politician, "Turner told Koppel of Fonda's second husband, Tom Hayden. "And she said, you know," If you run for, for the office, you run alone. "

In HBO documentary, Jane Fonda in five acts, the 80-year-old actress, talks about her marriage with Turner for 10 years.

"In his heart, Ted is not a rich, powerful and privileged, it's a little boy who likes to play and who has a crazy genius. And that's what attracted me, "reveals Fonda, adding why both worked together. "I learned a lot with all the men of my life, but I mostly learned with Ted. His vision is macro and I'm micro, so we've been a great partnership. "

In the end, "as we went through our decade together, I became more of a feminist," says Fonda about what led them to stand out. "None of my marriages were democratic because I was too worried to please."

In the movie, she also visits her ex-husband on her Montana Ranch – where her CBS Sunday morning interview – where she says "look great" seeing him. "It's hard to get old, is not it?" She giggles laughing.

Since his separation from Turner in 2001, Fonda has yet to remarry. In May, ET caught up with Reading Club star, who discussed dating while being famous. See what she had to say in the video below: