'Baywatch' Star Mike Newman Suffers From Parkinson's Disease

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Mike Newman, who became famous on &#039;Baywatch,&#039; has had to deal with a stroke of fate. Unfortunately he has battling with his health for many years now, as he recently revealed.

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00:00 Mike Newman who became famous on Baywatch has had to deal with a stroke of fate.

00:05 The actor has been suffering from Parkinson's disease for 16 years.

00:11 He was diagnosed when he was 50 years old and has been living with the disease ever

00:15 since.

00:16 The diagnosis changed everything for the Baywatch stars and now reveals in an interview with

00:20 People Magazine.

00:24 Everything changes.

00:25 All those things that you thought you were going to do with your children and grandchildren,

00:28 the pictures we were going to take, all the plans I had stopped, he said.

00:34 For example, he and his wife Sarah planned to spend their retirement in Hawaii.

00:39 However due to circumstances, they decided to stay in Los Angeles.

00:44 I've been training for this.

00:46 Somebody that was 65 and not very athletic, if they got the news that they got Parkinson's,

00:49 it wouldn't turn out as well.

00:50 I got them all beat, I guess, if we could call it beat, he said.

00:56 The actor has today retired from the TV business and lives with his wife.

00:59 The couple has two children.

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