Judi Dench - Dame Judi Dench Has Regular Tests To Preserve Eyesight 02 May 2012 12:14 (CONTACT MUSIC)

Dame Judi Dench undergoes routine tests to ensure her eyesight doesn't deteriorate as she battles the age-related condition macular degeneration.

The veteran British actress has had a series of injections to help preserve her vision after being diagnosed with the disease, which can lead to blindness.

She tells newsman Anderson Cooper, "It just presents a difficulty. You might have a very bad hip, and you learn to adjust to things. I'm certain I'm not going blind. I'm still driving my car (although) not at dusk. I go and see someone all the time, and they test it.


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Judi Dench: Actress Judi Dench is battling to save her sight. (ABC News)

The James Bond star said in an interview published Saturday that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition which can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn't even read her own scripts.

 The 77-year-old told the Daily Mirror that she was relying on friends and family to keep her up to speed with her lines. "It's usually my daughter or my agent or a friend and actually I like that, because I sit there and imagine the story in my mind," she told the newspaper during an interview at a London hotel.

"The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening I can't see the person I'm having dinner with."


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