A Better Call Saul star has revealed a devastating diagnosis. Actor Russell Andrews confirmed doctors diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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"I am a person living with ALS," He said on CNN's "The Story Is with Elex Michaelson" on Saturday. "I was diagnosed in the late fall of last year."
Andrews and his fiancée, Erica Tazel, have been struggling with the diagnosis. The Better Call Saul star said he first noticed symptoms a few years ago.
"And it's been humbling but there's ... Elex, there's also something in the fact that I walked into a family of very caring people I did not know a year ago — the cliché family, but they have not let us miss a step in terms of care, the attention, the awareness and the ability to get me here today," he said.
The actor was too busy with his professional life to seek treatment at the time.
"It was a stressful time. We didn't work for three years, about, and then we had the back-to-back strikes and so a lot was going on," he said.
'Better Call Saul' Star Reveals Diagnosis
"I was not able to do things that I normally do. I was dropping cups and glasses at night. It felt like things were running up and down my arm at different times and it was the nerves," Andrews recalled.
Tazel noticed something was wrong with Andrews after his movement began to change.
"The way he walked, there was just the subtle little things like that and I had questions. I was like, 'Something is definitely wrong,'" she said.
Unfortunately for the Better Call Saul actor, there's no cure for the disease.
"Within 15 minutes, the primary care [physician] said she would like me to see a neurologist," he remembered. "One thing led to another."
Tazel and Andrews still plan on getting married.
"[There] was not a sigh of relief, but some understanding of what was happening. And I looked at him across the room and I said, 'At least now we know what it is, and I still want to be your wife,'" she recalled.
