10 Celebrities with Multiple Sclerosis
Richard Pryor (1940-2005), famous comedian and actor, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Through the 1990s, he lived with the symptoms of MS, eventually only being able to move around with a power-operated scooter. Pryor passed away from a heart attack in 2005 when he was 65 years old.
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