Sean Connery’s wife reveals late actor’s battle with dementia: “It was no life for him”

By Will Richards

 

Sean Connery and Micheline Roquebrune. Credit: Tom Maelsa/Getty Images

 

Sean Connery’s wife has revealed that the James Bond star battled with dementia before his death.

 

The 90-year-old Connery died overnight on Friday (October 30) in the Bahamas, his family confirmed yesterday.

 

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Connery’s wife, the 91-year-old French-Moroccan artist Micheline Roquebrune, revealed that Connery was battling dementia.

 

“It was no life for him,” she said. “It took its toll on him. He was not able to express himself latterly”. Roquebrune added that Connery then “got his final wish to slip away without any fuss.”

 

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best of the Bond actors, for sure.

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Referring to Biden here is an insult. Sean Connery had screen carisma second to none and he got even better as he aged.They no longer make actors like this. He will be missed.

I did not know you could not use a word that rhymes with ring here, but starts with a k?

Dementia is a disease that makes the people suffer who take care for the one having it .

apart from his acting he seemed to be a very nice man from what I have seen of him on talk shows and interviews and as someone else said he got better with age although perhaps 90 is too old.

Yes he was the best James Bond enjoyed watching all the Bond movies 

And  no doubt will watch again 

31 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

apart from his acting he seemed to be a very nice man from what I have seen of him on talk shows and interviews and as someone else said he got better with age although perhaps 90 is too old.

Lynsey De  Paul may disagree  with that

Shaken not stirred!......The name is Bond.......James Bond!.... Never ever forgotten! RIP Sir James????????, gets me all emotional as I write this!

I wasn't a big fan of the Bond films, probably because I was too young to see them when they started in the early 60's, although of the 67 or so movies he has under his belt, I remember him in films like The Hunt for Red October 1990 and The Rock 1996, although I am sure I have seen him in various Bond movies as I grew up and others.

 

Classy actor RIP

18 hours ago, Dart12 said:

best of the Bond actors, for sure.

Well as Bond, he could have put his shoes under my bed at any time.

49 minutes ago, bodga said:

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

apart from his acting he seemed to be a very nice man from what I have seen of him on talk shows and interviews and as someone else said he got better with age although perhaps 90 is too old.

Lynsey De  Paul may disagree  with that

Who cares? She's deid 'n' aw.

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

Who cares? She's deid 'n' aw.

she ??? oh Lynsey whats her name. She didn't leave many out on her race around the course did she.

23 hours ago, Dart12 said:

I did not know you could not use a word that rhymes with ring here, but starts with a k?

It's spelled "del€ted".....!

On 11/3/2020 at 7:05 PM, 4MyEgo said:

I wasn't a big fan of the Bond films, probably because I was too young to see them when they started in the early 60's, although of the 67 or so movies he has under his belt, I remember him in films like The Hunt for Red October 1990 and The Rock 1996, although I am sure I have seen him in various Bond movies as I grew up and others.

 

Classy actor RIP

If you are not old enough to remember the first ones, they were a movie changing sensation. I reckon all subsequent action movies since owe something to the early Bonds films. They were as significant to action/ thrillers as the car chase scene in Bullitt  was to car chase scenes in movies afterwards.

 

The production values were terrible and the special effects laughable, IMO, but Connery made them into something special and memorable.

 

It says something that Connery's replacement was a smooth joker, as I'm sure they knew Connery was a once off.

Far as I'm concerned, Connery was Bond, and the later just pale shadows. Worst Bond IMO was Brosnan- far to PC to be authentic.