Beloved ‘Days of Our Lives’ star James Reynolds reveals devastating Parkinson’s diagnosis

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The 80-year-old actor’s health struggles have been written into his character Abe Carver’s storyline on the soap opera, he revealed.

“Days of Our Lives” star James Reynolds has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

The actor opened up to Entertainment Tonight, in an interview published Tuesday, about his health struggles being written into his character Abe Carver’s storyline.

While the 80-year-old “thought [he] was hiding it,” his “shaking all over the place” was “obvious” to the soap opera’s writers.

“Sometimes I’d get a little unbalanced and have to make a quick adjustment. You’re playing that game,” he said of navigating Parkinson’s disease, which the World Health Organization defines as “a brain condition that causes problems with movement, mental health, sleep, pain and other health issues.”

Reynolds noted, “There are many other characters who have gone through real-life issues that then are mirrored on the show. This is an issue that is going to be mirrored on the show and there is nothing any of us can really do about it.”

Although the Daytime Emmy winner did not specify when he received his diagnosis, he explained that it came after he experienced body “tremor[s] that wouldn’t go away” — sometimes falling out of bed — and being “out of breath.”

He added, “I find something different every day, and I realized just a couple weeks ago that I may have had this as long as 15 to 20 years ago.”

Reynolds confessed that it’s “difficult to motivate [him]self at times.”

After keeping the diagnosis “quiet for quite awhile, a few years,” in order to “guard” himself and his family, Reynolds decided to go public because his symptoms have become increasingly hard to mask.

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