CNN Founder Ted Turner Reveals He Has Lewy Body Dementia: 'I Can't Remember What My Disease Is'

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Ted Turner has revealed hisLewy Body dementiadiagnosis.

The 79-year-old media mogul, who founded CNN in 1980, opened up about his illness for the first time during an interview withCBS Sunday Morningin a clip that was released on Friday.

“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,” he said, pausing momentarily before adding, “Dementia. I can’t remember what my disease is.”

Turner, who filmed the interview at his 113,000-acre ranch near Bozeman, Montana, also described his symptoms of feeling “tired [and] exhausted. That’s the main symptoms, and forgetfulness.”

LBD is the same diseaseRobin Williamswas suffering from before hediedof suicide in August 2014 at age 63, according to his widowSusan Williams.

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“Lewy Body dementia is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s,” Dr. Alex Pantelyat, Director of Atypical Parkinsonism Center and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins previously told PEOPLE in November 2015. “It is an incredibly devastating disease. It affects your core, it affects who you are as a person. In the case of DLB and some of these other related disorders it tends to a great extent affect the frontal lobe, which is really what makes us human. It’s really unbelievably devastating.”

Turner was most recently featured in his ex-wifeJane Fonda‘s HBO documentaryJane Fonda In Five Acts, which premiered on Sept. 24.

After 10 years of marriage, Turner and Fonda divorced in 2001.

“But there was this angel on my shoulder. …It was hard to even hear her voice, saying, ‘If you stay, you will die without ever becoming who you can be. You will not really be authentic,’ ” she said.

Turner’s full interview will air onCBS Sunday Morningat 9 a.m. on Sunday.

source: people.com