Danny Glover, 79, 'will never forget' experiences with Mel Gibson, Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela despite Alzheimer's diagnosis

Danny Glover vowed that 'there are moments I'll never forget' despite in 2023.

Most of the reported 50 million people suffering from the neurodegenerative disease can expect to live three to 12 years after the devastating dementia diagnosis.

The honorary Oscar winner - who's turning 80 on July 22 - is best known for playing aging LAPD homicide detective Roger Murtaugh opposite in the Lethal Weapon film series.

Glover told People on Thursday that it 'was great' working on their four buddy cop action movies, which reportedly amassed $2 billion in box office and merchandising revenue between 1987 and 1998.

The San Francisco native worked on two films with billionaire mogul , and he marveled at how she managed to help get Jonathan Demme's 1998 psychological horror film Beloved into cinemas: 'She had the power.'

Glover is also famed for his role as 's abusive husband 'Mister' Albert Johnson in 's 1985 beloved big-screen adaptation of The Color Purple, which earned $98.4 million at the global box office.

'He was in his own pain too,' the Independent Spirit Award winner reflected.

'Part of the outcome of that was his own healing. In those kind of relationships, people have an opportunity to resolve their own internal contradiction.'

Glover portrayed the late anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in the 1987 HBO biopic and when the former South African president was released from prison in 1990 after 27 years, they connected.