Actor Terry Crews’ wife, Rebecca King-Crews, has shared the heartbreaking news that she’s been battling Parkinson’s disease for nine years. However, at first, her early symptoms were dismissed as anxiety. Now, she wants to spread awareness.
Fans were left shocked after Terry Crews and his wife, Rebecca King-Crews, shared some deeply personal news. Speaking on the Today show, she revealed she has been quietly battling Parkinson’s disease for years without telling the public.
She was first diagnosed back in 2015, after doctors at first thought her symptoms were just stress or anxiety. It took years before she finally got the right answer.
She has decided to “come forward now” because she recently underwent a procedure “to help with the symptoms on one side of [her] body.”
During an interview with Today, alongside her husband, Terry, Rebecca said, “I’m seeing improvement. … I’m able to write my name, my dates, I’m able to write with my right hand for the first time in probably three years.”
Rebecca King-Crews diagnosed with Parkinson’s – doctors first dismissed symptoms as anxiety
Rebecca King-Crews first began noticing something was wrong in 2012. In the early stages, the signs were subtle as she began to feel numbness in her left foot while working out. Meanwhile, her personal trainer noticed that her left arm wasn’t swinging as much as it should. One morning, while applying lip gloss, she realized her left arm was shaking.
She went to the doctor because of the tremors. She knew she had it because her grandmother had tremors too, but the doctor dismissed it as anxiety.
“It’s not uncommon with us ladies for someone to call everything stress,” she said during her Today appearance. “I asked for referrals, and I got them. And it took three years to diagnose me.”
Finally, after three years of not knowing what it was, a Parkinson’s specialist recognized that she had the condition. The tremors have made it difficult for her in her everyday life, like putting on makeup or brushing her teeth.
Now, Rebecca King-Crews is undergoing a groundbreaking treatment that helps her with the tremors. It is focused on ultrasound.
Per the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, the groundbreaking treatment is “a noninvasive, therapeutic technology with the potential to improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care for patients with symptoms secondary to Parkinson’s disease.”
Branded “superhero” by husband and actor Terry Crews
It further states that “this novel technology focuses beams of ultrasonic energy precisely and accurately on targets deep in the brain without damaging surrounding normal tissue.”
King-Crews began the treatment a month ago and is already seeing improvements. That is the reason why she has decided to go public with the Parkinson’s diagnosis. She said on the Today show that she doesn’t want “pity,” but rather to spread awareness. She also believes “we are going to find a cure.”
Speaking to People Magazine, she said, “The only reason I’m going public is because I finally have some uplifting information to offer.”
Terry Crews branded his wife a “superhero”.
“To watch her write her name for the first time in three years. Let me tell you, man, I don’t know what to say. I’m choked up just thinking about it because. I want the best, she’s the rock of our lives, you know? And I just want her to do this,” he said.