Martin King has opened up about losing his beloved mum to dementia, admitting it was like ‘saying goodbye to her twice’. The Ireland AM presenter’s mum Christina passed away from dementia back in 2019, just a month after the sudden death of his dad Martin. Providing an insight into what it’s like to lost a family member to the illness, Martin candidly looked back at the passing of his mum.
‘We don’t know how long she had it because when she’s opening presses and saying the cutlery is in here when it’s really the crockery – you just pass it off at first, you let the mistakes go, so it’s hard to know when the symptoms first really start. ‘But it was horrible to see her in later years, horrible for everyone. ‘You really say goodbye to a person twice, that’s when they first get diagnosed and then when they pass,’ he told The Sun.
Previously releasing a documentary based on his research to see if he will get dementia one day, the Virgin Media presenter met with researchers studying the illness. ‘I wanted to know but after speaking to a number of people, we just don’t know. I will say there is so much effort and research going into it and the hope is that they might be able to slow it down and that’s the hope for now.
‘It has become so common I believe because we are living longer. If you hear now that someone has died in their 60s you think “God, that’s so young” but years ago it might not have been,’ he recalled. Martin was speaking at .
