HEALTHTerry Crews' Wife Rebecca, 60, Shares Parkinson's Diagnosis, Reveals Symptoms Were Brushed Off as 'Anxiety' for 3 Years
Rebecca King Crews was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2015.
April 6 2026, Published 10:44 a.m. ET
Terry Crews' wife, Rebecca King Crews, revealed she's battling Parkinson's Disease.
The actor's spouse shared the news on the Monday, April 6, episode of Today, revealing she was diagnosed back in 2015 after suffering from symptoms for three years.
Rebecca King Crews Shares Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
Rebecca King Crews was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2015 after doctors dismissed her symptoms for three years.
Rebecca, 60, decided to share her health complication after recently undergoing a procedure that helped symptoms, such as tremors, on one side of her body.
Rebecca said she's feeling "good" and "seeing improvement. … I’m able to write my name, my dates, I’m able to write with my right hand for the first time in probably three years."
"Part of the procedure is improved symptoms, so you’re improved on one side, not on the other," the musician explained. "However, each day that I do things, I’m aware of the benefit that’s already been to me on the one side of the body. So I’m looking forward to doing the left side."
Terry Crews' wife said she's feeling 'good' after having a procedure that helped symptoms on one side of her body.
When it comes to advice she would give to others who are struggling, she expressed, "Just keep going. And that's what I'm going to keep doing. I believe that you don't lay down and die because you got a diagnosis."
What Were Rebecca King Crews' First Symptoms?
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The musician has no plans to stop working amid her health battle.
Her first symptoms back in 2012 included "slight numbness" in her left foot and her arm not swinging when she walked. When she started having tremors in her arms, it was dismissed by doctors as "anxiety." It wasn't until she saw a Parkinson's specialist that she discovered her diagnosis.
"It’s not uncommon with us ladies for someone to call everything stress," she spilled. "I asked for referrals, and I got them. And it took three years to diagnose me."
Terry Crews Is Giving His Wife All of His Support
The TV star believes he was 'destined' to fight the disease alongside his wife.
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum, 57, got emotional as he talked about the journey, calling his spouse a "superhero."
"When they say sickness and health, this is the battle that we were designed to fight together," he gushed. "Where she's weak, I'm strong. Where I'm weak, she's strong. And we built each other up like that for almost 37 years and all the way to forever."
'We Feel Hopeful'
'We feel like we are on the edge of a cure for Parkinson’s,' Terry Crews declared.
Going forward, Rebecca wants to make the procedure she underwent "more available to others, because it’s an expensive surgery. It’s not covered (by insurance) yet."
"And [I want] to give hope to people with Parkinson's, because I believe that we’re going to find the cure," she added.
"We feel hopeful. We really feel like we are on the edge of a cure for Parkinson’s," agreed the America's Got Talent host. "We felt like we had to share this with the world."
