Ted Turner reveals that he has dementia

In an interview with Ted Koppel and CBS News today, CNN founder and media mogul, Ted Turner, revealed that he was suffering from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder that "affects memory and other cognitive functions ". Turner also noted that the "euphoric ups and downs" that he had gone through in the past, which had previously been diagnosed as a manic depression, were actually an early symptom. of this neurodegenerative disease. A Vulture The story says that Lewy body dementia is similar to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and that it seems that Robin Williams has suffered before his death.

Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Turner told Mr Koppel that he was no longer looking at the news much, claiming that even CNN "was going a bit too much on politics" and that "it's not good for me." He was planning to run for the presidency until his wife, Jane Fonda. told him that he would run alone when he ran for the office.