Sharon Osbourne is "terrified" she'll die from Alzheimer's disease.
The 62-year-old star has revealed she and husband Ozzy Osbourne underwent a genome test and found that she has two of the four genes responsible for developing the debilitating disease.
23 January 2015
She said: "Ozzy and I had these tests done at a university in England, and the results took three months to come back.
"They test every single cell, chromosome and gene in your body; it's like a DNA test but a million times more sophisticated.
"The results show I have two of the four genes that give it to you. They're not the two major genes, but they're still there and I have them."
The former 'X Factor' judge's music mogul father Don Arden passed away aged 81 in 2007 after battling the devastating form of dementia and Sharon - who has children Kelly, Jack and Aimee with Ozzy - admits she feels powerless in stopping the same from happening to her.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I was terrified because my dad died from Alzheimer's.
"It is the most soul-destroying disease. To see someone you love come down with it... it's wicked, it really is.
"There is nothing I can do to prevent it, nothing. People say take cod liver oil and do puzzles and thing, but then I look at people diagnosed with dementia.
"My father was super active mentally, and take Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan... they were all so active, and that's what really frightens me."
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