Rebecca King-Crews says a newly approved procedure for Parkinson’s disease has given her back small but meaningful pieces of daily life, including the ability to write her name again and use her right hand to sign dates for the first time in about three years. The 60-year-old said on April 6 that she is still recovering, but that she feels good after the operation, which went into her brain without cutting her open.
She said the improvement on her right side has been enough for her to notice it in movement as well as in writing. “I can do a port de bras on my right leg, balancing on that leg,” she said, describing a shift that would have been impossible for her before the procedure. Rebecca King-Crews said she is still “figuring it out,” but called the treatment part of a new frontier in medicine.
Rebecca King-Crews said she has been living with Parkinson’s for 10 years and received her formal diagnosis in 2015 after three years of symptoms. She spoke publicly about the illness for the first time in a joint interview with Terry Crews, who said he had watched her go through the condition for 10 to 12 years. The couple share six children.
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The disclosure lands with unusual force because she had kept the diagnosis private for more than a decade, even as the disease steadily changed the way she moved, slept and balanced. She also said the surgery is expensive and not covered yet, a detail that turns the story from a personal health update into a test case for how quickly new Parkinson’s treatments reach patients who need them most.
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There is still another step ahead. Rebecca King-Crews said she will undergo a second procedure in September to address numbness and tremors on the left side of her body, which means the gains she described are real but incomplete. Terry Crews said the experience has pushed him to see the treatment as the start of something bigger, not just for his wife but for others living with Parkinson’s who are waiting for the same technology to become available.
