Harry Potter Star Miriam Margolyes Raises Health Concerns: 'Doesn't Have Long To Live'

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 11:55 IST

Miriam Margolyes, 83, revealed she doesn't person "long to live" aft a large bosom cognition successful 2023. She struggles with spinal stenosis and mobility issues.

The 83-year-old histrion struggles with spinal stenosis and mobility issues. (Photo: Bang Showbiz)

Miriam Margolyes has revealed she doesn’t person “long to live" aft a large bosom operation.

The 83-year-old actress, who played Professor Sprout successful the ‘Harry Potter’ movie franchise, underwent a process successful 2023 to regenerate an aortic valve, which ensured she avoided much invasive unfastened bosom surgery.

She told The Times newspaper: “When you cognize that you haven’t got agelong to unrecorded – and I’m astir apt going to dice wrong the adjacent 5 oregon six years, if not before, I’m loath to permission down performing. It’s specified a joy. I yearn to play roles that don’t confine maine to wheelchairs, but I’m conscionable not beardown enough."

Shortly aft the operation, she admitted she’d “never heard of" the process before, but she was gladsome to person got it done. She told Jessie and Lennie Ware’s ‘Table Manners’ podcast: “I’ve got a cow’s bosom present – well, not the full heart. I’ve had an aortic valve replaced by a cow’s aortic valve. I don’t cognize however communal it is. I’d ne'er heard of that operation. But it saves you from having unfastened bosom surgery, which would beryllium infinitely much invasive."

Last summer, Miriam admitted she is struggling to walk, and besides confessed she regrets not making superior beingness changes aft the 2023 procedure.

She told Closer mag astir however she is suffering spinal stenosis – a information that puts unit connected the spinal cord and nerves: “I can’t locomotion precise well, and I’m registered disabled, truthful I usage each kinds of assistance. “I’ve got 2 sticks and a walker and they’re specified a bore, but I’ve conscionable got a mobility scooter, which is simply a batch of fun."

Miriam added successful her interrogation she wished she had been capable to conquer her value and considers not doing truthful a defeat. She antecedently told the ‘How to Fail’ podcast: “I americium a blubber mass. I americium fat. And to beryllium abdominous and 82 is genuinely pathetic."

Miriam has besides shared her fears astir ageing and said she is frightened she volition not beryllium spend carers to look aft her arsenic her wellness deteriorates. She told the Radio Times magazine: “I’m disquieted that I won’t person capable wealth for carers erstwhile I yet get paralysed, oregon immoderate it is that’s going to hap to me."

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