Watch: Meghan Trainor Shares Health Scare That Led to 60-Pound Weight Loss JourneyDame Judi Dench's vision loss is progressing. Over 10 years after the Cats star shared her macular degeneration-a degenerative condition affecting the retina-diagnosis, she admitted that it's progressed so much she "can't recognize anybody now." "I can see your outline," Judi explained to pal Sir Ian McKellen in a joint ITV Interview. "But I can't recognize anyone now. I can't see the television. I can't see to read." And when the interviewer asked her about the theatre, Judy sullenly shook her head, "Well, no.