Rebecca King-Crews underwent a “non-invasive” procedure that alleviated symptoms on the right side of her body and plans to have a second that will address the left in September.

Terry Crews’ wife Rebecca undergoes life-changing procedure for Parkinson’s: ‘I’m able to write my name’ again

Rebecca King-Crews underwent a "non-invasive" procedure that alleviated symptoms on the right side of her body and plans to have a second that will address the left in September.

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Terry Crews and his wife, Rebecca King-Crews, are speaking out about her decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

The couple, who married in 1989, revealed on Monday that King-Crews was diagnosed with the condition in 2015 and recently underwent a medical procedure that has helped to alleviate symptoms on the right side of her body.

“I feel good. I’m able to write my name and my dates and I’m able to write with my right hand for the first time in probably three years,” King-Crews explained on Monday’s episode of *Today*. “And I can do a port de bras on my right leg, balancing on that leg, so I’m seeing improvement in my symptoms.”

Terry Crews and Rebecca King-Crews.

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The singer-songwriter also revealed that she plans to undergo a second treatment in September that will similarly treat her left side.

“I’m still figuring it out, to be honest,” she said of her ongoing healing journey. “Because part of the procedure is to improve symptoms, so you’re improved on one side and not on the other. It can make you a little more aware of the other.”

She continued, “However, each day that I do things, I’m aware of the benefit that it’s already been to me on the one side of the body. So I’m looking forward to doing the left side.”

Terry Crews and Rebecca King-Crews.

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King-Crews explained that she chose to come forward with her Parkinson’s diagnosis not because she's seeking pity, but because she wants others who are battling the condition to know about this procedure.

“They were able to go into my brain without cutting me open,” she said, noting that doctors used “non-invasive” focused ultrasound that is similarly used to “treat many other types of tumors, cancers, without the risk of bleeding, without the risk of dying in surgery.”

King-Crews continued, “I felt that I wanted to potentially make it more available to others because it’s an expensive surgery. It’s not covered yet. Just to give hope to people with Parkinson’s because I believe we’re gonna find the cure.”

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Crews added that he views the treatment “as the beginning of a cure” to the disease. Parkinson’s is a movement disorder that affects the central nervous system and worsens over time, per the Mayo Clinic. There is no cure, but medication and surgery can help manage symptoms.

“To watch her go through what she’s going through over the last 10 to 12 years, it’s been very, very hard,” he said. “The tremors, the not sleeping, the loss of balance, like she said — to watch her write her name for the first time in three years. I don’t know what to say, I’m choked up just thinking about it because I want the best… She’s the rock of our lives.”

King-Crews shared that she realized something was wrong in 2012 after she discovered “some slight numbness in my left foot,” adding, “And then my trainer noticed that my arm did not swing when I’d walk and I was like, ‘Okay.’ And then I woke one morning and my hand was shaking and I said, ‘Now that’s a tremor!’ Because my grandmother had tremors.”

The *Family Crews *alum shared that her doctor initially diagnosed her with anxiety, but that she asked for a referral instead. “It took three years to diagnose me,” she said.

Crews called his wife a “superhero," noting that in addition to her Parkinson's diagnosis she is now "100 percent cancer-free" after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 and undergoing a double mastectomy. He also shared that King-Crews' health battles has only strengthened their marriage and love for each other.

“I said, this is why you get married. My thing is, when it says in sickness and in health, this is the battle that we were designed to fight together,” he said. “And that’s the whole way I see it. Where she’s weak, I’m strong. Where I’m weak, she’s strong. We built each other up like that for almost 37 and all the way to forever, that’s how we’re doing it.”

Watch the couple discuss King-Crews' battle in the clip above.

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