BY PATRICK GOMEZ AND NICOLE SANDS
08/27/2015
When Shemar Moore‘s mother, Marilyn, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the Criminal Minds actor told himself she just needed to take it easy. “I went through the whole denial thing for a couple of years,” the actor, 45, tells PEOPLE of learning of his mother’s diagnosis in 1999. “I was like, ‘Take a couple aspirin and go to sleep…You’ll be fine. You’ll be fine. Go get a massage and slow down.’ ” But after some time passed, Moore began to realize just how much the debilitating disease was affecting his mother – but also what he could do to help her. “I just had to check myself and say, ‘Listen, she’s scared and asking for help, so let’s help her turn in the right direction,’ ” says the only-child, who had his mother move from San Francisco to Los Angeles so she would be close by. “I’ve just been learning about the meds and learning about how it affects different people. Five years ago, we thought she was going to be wheelchair bound. Then, by just doing some homework and really seeing what MS was all about, we learned that MS is affecting her, but not entirely. We were able to be specific about the MS and other factors in her life.”
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