The 94-year-old actress played the well-known role of old Allie Hamilton in the tear-jerking film who ironically had dementia. Now Nick has revealed that his mother is “in full dementia, and it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”

During the film’s time frame, Gena recalled that she chose to play the role of Allie after witnessing her own mother struggle with the disease.

Despite the Nicholas Sparks novel being a very heartwrenching storyline, the film has gone on to be an iconic movie for each generation. “I can’t wait to see it…I think it’s so exciting.

To see it take on a whole other life like this, it blows my mind,” she shared.