One of the great comedy geniuses behind Monty Python, Terry Jones, has been diagnosed with dementia.
A representative for the writer and director broke the sad news to the public: “Terry has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a variant of frontotemporal dementia.”
“This illness affects his ability to communicate and he is no longer able to give interviews. Terry is proud and honoured to be recognised in this way and is looking forward to the celebrations.”
Jones and the other Pythons got together in 1969 and wrote and performed Monty Python’s Flying Circus until 1974.
He co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam, and was sole director on two further Monty Python movies, Life of Brian and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Original Song Written for a Film in 1984.
The 74-year-old found love recently when he secretly married his second wife Anna Soderstrom in a low key ceremony in London.
He became a father again at the age of 69 to his daughter Siri.
Primary progressive aphasia, which Terry is suffering from, affects the brain and leads to problems using language correctly…a hellish deprivation for any writer and wordsmith.
People with aphasia are prone to make mistakes in the words they use, sometimes using the wrong sounds in a word, choosing the wrong word, or putting words together incorrectly and it affects speaking and writing in the same frustrating manner.
None of his fellow living Pythons have commented on Terry’s health as of yet.
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