Mary Tyler Moore ‘was nearly blinded’ by diabetes in her final years as she fought the disease: husband

Mary Tyler Moore, star of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show," died in 2017 at age 80. She is the subject of the HBO documentary "Being Mary Tyler Moore."

The star was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 33 following a miscarriage. Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.

"Over time, she suffered many of the complications of diabetes," Moore’s husband, Dr. Robert Levine, told Fox News Digital. "But the one thing that had the greatest impact on her was the fact that she was nearly blinded by it in her later years. Mary had such narrowed visual fields and such limited central vision that she was unable to read. She was unable to walk across a room safely without bumping into things or tripping over things. And for a woman who was in her heart a dancer and so physically capable and so independent, just imagine what that would mean to you, to have your joy robbed from you."

"Visual loss from diabetes was a big issue for Mary," he added.