Reese Witherspoon, Renee Zellweger Get Personal in Fight Against ALS: Publicist Nanci Ryder Diagnosed
Reese Witherspoon, Renee Zellweger Get Personal in Fight Against ALS: Publicist Nanci Ryder Diagnosed – Reese Witherspoon and Renee Zellweger had a very personal reason to participate in today’s (10/19/2014) ALS Walk in downtown Los Angeles.
Their longtime personal publicist, Hollywood powerhouse Nanci Ryder, was diagnosed with the horrific disease about two months ago just as the now famous Ice Bucket Challenge was launched.
Witherspoon said about hearing the news, “It was devastating, we just cried and cried and then said, “What are we going to do to get busy to change things?”
ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Average life expectancy of a person with ALS averages two to five years from diagnosis. About 30,000 Americans are living with ALS at any given time.
