DAVID CASSIDY’S DEMENTIA AND ALCOHOLISM REMARKABLY SIMILAR TO HIS FATHER, JACK CASSIDY
In the passing of David Cassidy, fans had learned a lot about the Cassidy family and the dementia diagnosis which David Cassidy knew was always looming. While David Cassidy died of liver failure, his dementia had already started affecting his daily life enough that he had gone public to explain his sometimes erratic behavior. But even though David Cassidy’s death at 67 was tragic, his father, Jack Cassidy’s death at 49 was even more so, as he was also battling mental health problems and alcoholism when he died.
David Cassidy claims he always knew he was at risk for dementia because both of his parents, Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward, showed symptoms before their deaths. The hereditary aspect of the disease has reportedly always been a concern to David Cassidy, especially in that he has two children, Beau and Katie Cassidy.
David Cassidy had expressed a great deal of regret that he did not have a closer relationship with his daughter, Katie Cassidy, as she was raised by her mother and step-father. Approximately nine years ago, David and Katie Cassidy had a falling out and had not spoken for years until he fell ill. When dementia set in, so did David Cassidy’s regrets.
“I wasn’t her father. I was her biological father but I didn’t raise her. She has a completely different life.”
David Cassidy’s mother, Evelyn Ward, died at the age of 89 of Alzheimer’s related illness, and David Cassidy became a spokesman for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and spoke about his mother’s illness from a personal perspective says Mercury News.
“I wanted to use my notoriety to put myself in a position to help others,” he said in an interview with AgingCare.com. “I wanted to educate and tell my story.”
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