Patrika Darbo, who plays Nancy on ‘Days of our Lives’ and Shirley on ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ has revealed her husband’s heartbreaking medical condition.
Patrika Darbo Gets Candid on Pol’ and Patrik’s Podcast
Darbo recently made an appearance on the podcast Undressed With Pol’ and Patrik, hosted by married couple and celebrity fashion icons Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson.
On the podcast, she talked about her career on Daytime, which kicked off when she played the role of Sally on ‘General Hospital’. In 1998, Darbo joined ‘Days of Our Lives’ cast members to play the role of wicked Nancy.
In 2000, the soap opera star received a Daytime nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her ‘General Hospital’ role, Nancy. In 2016, she won a Primetime Emmy in the category of Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her Acting Dead role, Margot Mullen.
During the ibterview, Darbo talked about her beloved husband Rolf Darbo’s Alzheimer’s disease. “My husband’s been diagnosed that he’s not well,” she said.
“He’s informed me that he doesn’t want to travel. He wants to just be home. He’s in the beginning [stages].” She also shared that the most difficult part is not having him be the same as he once was.
“I’ve always been the actor bringing in the money [while] he’s always been my business manager,” she said, “I am computer illiterate.”
The actress went to share that she’s had to try to adjust and try different mindsets in order to take over the business end of her career. She said, “I’m trying to take that big room that’s got everything going on [in it] back to a small room to where I know what’s going on.”
“I’m very blessed in that he still knows who I am. To be really frank, at this point, I wish he’d die of a heart attack because the hardest part of this is to see the one that you love who is so bright and wonderful and [who] knows everything to [being someone who does] not remember where I am right now.”
“It’s important that we’re taking care of one another,” Darbo says. “To anyone who faces this kind of thing…you have to have patience, and the person [who’s suffering] is not doing anything on purpose.”
