Michael Irvin reveals wife suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Michael Irvin revealed this week that his wife Sandy has early onset Alzheimer’s disease which she has been suffering from for the past five or six years.

Irvin, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, said his wife, 58, requires around-the-clock care and has difficulty speaking and walking. The couple married in 1990.

“If anyone has earned the right to stay in her house, MY WIFE HAS!!!,” Irvin told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram via text. “Which I will honor. Whatever it takes.”

Irvin has a new restaurant called Playmakers88 located in The Colony, a suburb of Dallas. He said part of the reason for the announcement was that his wife likes the wings of a chef who now works at his establishment.

“When I’m working — and she’s a really fussy eater — and I’m on the road, she’d always call me and say, ‘Honey, I’m hungry,’” Irvin said. “I am literally. show. During breaks, I would call and say “my wife just called, bring her some chickens to the house.”

“She would only eat the wings here. No more wings.”

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly seven million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, and the lifetime risk of developing the disease by age 45 is 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 10 for men.