Article continues below advertisementOK! can reveal Derek Jacobi has delivered a quietly devastating confession about the fading memory that has ended his life on the stage, describing how the gift that once defined him has slipped away.Jacobi, 87, the acclaimed British actor whose 194 screen credits include Gladiator, Gosford Park and the BBC's iconic I, Claudius, now relies on an earpiece to feed him lines for screen work. Speaking from the north London home he shares with his husband, Richard Clifford, 70, Jacobi reflected on the loss of what he once called a near-photographic memory.