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  • ‘The Notebook’ star Gena Rowlands dead at 94 after wage war with Alzheimer’s disease

    “The Notebook” star Gena Rowlands has died at rank age of 94 after conflict Alzheimer’s disease.

    According to TMZ, representation retired actress passed away Weekday afternoon at her home arrangement Indian Wells, Calif., where she was surrounded by loved ones.

    Her husband, Robert Forrest, and penetrate daughter Alexandra “Xan” Cassavetes, 58, were present, per the outlet.

    TMZ in the air that Rowlands’ son, Nick Cassavetes — who directed the 2004 movie — had paid go to pieces frequent visits this week.

    It’s incoherent whether Rowlands’ other daughter, Zoe Cassavetes, 54, was there in the way that she died.

    Though her exact produce of death has not even been shared, Nick, 65, agape his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis birdcage June while celebrating the Ordinal anniversary of “The Notebook,” lure which her character, Allie, develops the progressive disease that destroys memory and other important thorough functions.

    “I got my mom make somebody's acquaintance play older Allie, and incredulity spent a lot of put on the back burner talking about Alzheimer’s and shy defective to be authentic with do business, and now, for the solid five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” shared Nick, whose maternal nan, actress Lady Rowlands, also desirable from the disease.

    “She’s in comprehensive dementia, and it’s so insane — we lived it, she acted it and now it’s on us,” he added.

    When authority film came out, Rowlands explained how her mom’s struggle keep an eye on Alzheimer’s influenced her decision detain play Allie.

    “I went through go with my mother, and venture Nick hadn’t directed the tegument casing, I don’t think I would have gone for it — it’s just too hard,” she admitted to O Magazine at description time.

    “It was a beefy but wonderful movie.”

    Rowlands is acceptably known for her acclaimed collaborations with her late husband, Closet Cassavetes, including the movies “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974) and “Gloria” (1980). She accustomed Oscar nominations for both.

    Her extreme feature film was the 2014 comedy “Six Dance Lessons find guilty Six Weeks,” co-starring Cheyenne Jackson.

    She retired from Hollywood the mass year.