Actress Judi Dench says she's battling blindness

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Judi Dench had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness.

19 February,2012 02:51 am

Actress Judi Dench is battling to save her sight.The James Bond star said in an interview published Saturday that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldnt even read her own scripts.The 77-year-old told the Daily Mirror that she was relying on friends and family to keep her up to speed with her lines.Its usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind, she told the newspaper during an interview at a London hotel. The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I cant see the person Im having dinner with.The Mirror didnt say exactly where or when the interview took place. Messages left for Denchs agent were not immediately returned Saturday.Dench made her Shakespearean debut in 1957 at Londons Old Vic and has since taken on a vast number of theater, film and television roles.She won an Academy Award for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love and is best known to international audiences as intelligence boss M in the James Bond series.