http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/01/25/mary-tyler-moore-hospitalized-critical-condition-diabetes/

This is just awful. Hollywood icon, Mary Tyler Moore is in critical condition at a hospital in Connecticut, according to a new report, Jan. 25. Mary is reportedly surrounded by family members who are allegedly preparing their goodbyes. Get the devastating details.

Mary Tyler Moore, 80, is in critical condition at a Connecticut hospital, according to TMZ, Jan. 25. She has allegedly been on a respirator for more than one week. The actress is currently surrounded by family at the medical facility, and they are reportedly preparing their goodbyes due to her serious condition. Mary is currently suffering from multiple health problems, and it has recently taken a turn for the worse, as reported by the site.

There is no word on why Mary was allegedly hospitalized. However, she has battled type 1 diabetes for years. The actress also underwent brain surgery in 2011 to remove a benign tumor. She has also dealt with alcoholism, and even wrote about the issue in her first memoir, the New York Times best seller, After All [1995]. In her second memoir, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes [2009], Mary revealed what life was like living with type 1 diabetes.

It was been reported in 2014 that the actress was nearly blind, and that she had heart and kidney problems. Then, in 2015, on an episode of Larry King Now, her former co-star, Dick Van Dyke, 91, revealed that she was “not well at all,” due to her diabetes.

The Academy Award nominated actress is best known for starring in The Dick Van Dyke Show and her amazing stint on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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I'm so sorry to hear this news. I've been watching TDVDS on DVD recently and enjoying the performance of a young Mary (she was 25 when the show debuted).

Fox is reporting she died. :(

Sigh.

One of the remarkably bad things about getting older is that we see all the folks who, in our youth, were in the prime of their lives, wither before our eyes and pass. It's the way of things, and there's a reason for it all, but that doesn't really make it much easier to take.

Mary Tyler Moore was the epitome of so many things to me as a young TV watcher. She was beautiful, sexy, extremely smart, likable, compassionate, unsure of herself at times, and wonderfully, totally human. She really stood out like a beacon with her radiant performance, on both TDVDS and MTM, but I would argue, particularly in the latter, where she was allowed to display a really full and alive character. It was almost impossible not to love and root for Mary.

Now she's gone. I didn't know her, obviously. But she and her show represented a kind of class and quality that has not be equaled since. Darn it, that's hard to take.

She lived a fairly long life, though a lot of it involved dealing with illness and hardship. She really DID "turn the world on with her smile."

RIP Mary :rip:

Fox is reporting she died. :(


After that Larry King interview with Dick Van Dyke from over a year ago, when Van Dyke said she was no longer communicating, this doesn't exactly come as a shock. I wasn't expecting her to make it through 2016. But my heart is heavy. I never met her but I've loved Mary Tyler Moore all my life. Her shows were a huge part of my growing up years, and I have continued to watch right up to the present. It feels like I've lost a part of myself.

Sigh.

One of the remarkably bad things about getting older is that we see all the folks who, in our youth, were in the prime of their lives, wither before our eyes and pass. It's the way of things, and there's a reason for it all, but that doesn't really make it much easier to take.

Mary Tyler Moore was the epitome of so many things to me as a young TV watcher. She was beautiful, sexy, extremely smart, likable, compassionate, unsure of herself at times, and wonderfully, totally human. She really stood out like a beacon with her radiant performance, on both TDVDS and MTM, but I would argue, particularly in the latter, where she was allowed to display a really full and alive character. It was almost impossible not to love and root for Mary.

Now she's gone. I didn't know her, obviously. But she and her show represented a kind of class and quality that has not be equaled since. Darn it, that's hard to take.

She lived a fairly long life, though a lot of it involved dealing with illness and hardship. She really DID "turn the world on with her smile."

RIP Mary :rip:

So well put.