Jack Hanna's wife Suzi Egli revealed that her husband's condition has progressed to the stage where he doesn't recognize most of the members of his family.
extensive interview with The Columbus Dispatch,
“My husband is still in there somewhere,” Egli told the publication. “There are still those sweet, tender moments — you know, pieces of him that made me and the rest of the world fall in love with him. It’s hard. Real hard some days. But he took care of me all those years, and so it’s my turn to take care of him.”
“He would have worked until the day he died. He only retired due to the Alzheimer’s,” Kathaleen Hanna said. “He was embarrassed by it. He lived in fear the public would find out.” In her interview with the Columbus Dispatch, Kathaleen Hanna explained why the family decided to speak about her father's condition publicly now after keeping it private for so long.
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