US billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has revealed he is battling Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that alters memory, mood, movement and behaviour. In an interview to air Sunday on CBS, the 79-year-old Turner opened up about his battle, and even struggled to remember the name of the disorder.
"It's a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer's. It's similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimer's is fatal," Turner said, in excerpts released by the network. "Thank goodness I don't have that. But, I also have got, let's - the one that's - I can't remember the name of it." Finally, Turner said: "Dementia. I can't remember what my disease is."