Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden is sharing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s in her new book, “The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers.”
Harden told “CBS This Morning” she was propelled to write the book to turn her own pain into something positive and to preserve the memory of her mother’s life before she suffered from the disease.
Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden is sharing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s in her new book, “The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers.”
Harden told “CBS This Morning” she was propelled to write the book to turn her own pain into something positive and to preserve the memory of her mother’s life before she suffered from the disease.
Harden is also one of the stars of hit CBS medical drama, “Code Black.” In it, she plays Dr. Leanne Rorish, the residency director who leads a team in a busy emergency room. The theme of the show’s third season is also related to motherhood.
“For my character, Leanne, who is sort of a badass ER doctor and now she’s attempting to adopt Ariel … That’s really an ER situation — is raising a teenager. So she’s got ER on both sides of her.”
“Code Black” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT on CBS.
