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Ruth Buzzi’s Health: All About the Late Comedian’s Alzheimer’s Disease & More

The comedian and actress died in May 2025 — more than a decade after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Image Credit: WireImage Ruth Buzzi, the renowned comedian and actress known for her performance in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, died in May 2025 when she was 88. The news broke roughly a decade after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease — a progressive brain illness that affects an individual’s memory and reasoning skills, which ultimately leads to a loss of autonomy. “Some people have strokes of luck; I had the other kind,” Buzzi wrote at the time, adding a “thank you” for “all your love, messages, cards, letters and Sweet Tweets!” She then cheekily concluded, “And although my final arrangements include cremation, I’m not quite ready to make an ash out of myself.

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