Would I have helped spread the word on this before David Hyde Pierce publicly acknowledged being gay? No. But he's now out and proud and I want to share that Pierce is helping start a campaign against Alzheimer's disease, which he saw two family members suffer from.
On this ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning, he said: "I think the hardest thing in both cases, with my grandfather and with my dad, were the moments when they understood what was happening to them. It's a disease that takes your brain apart, a piece at a time. And it doesn't stop till it kills you."
Pierce said the Alzheimer's Association's Champions campaign aims to recruit one American for every person with Alzheimer's. A Web site lets people sign up for events, make donations and buy T-shirts. More than 5 million people in the U.S. live with the disease, according to the association.
"All we have to do is find a way to slow it down," he said. "We're not trying to keep people from dying. We're trying to keep people from dying this way."
Good luck David!