Overview

• In new Weekend Magazine interviews, the actor says she has "let [her] body down" and now relies on a walker.
• She rejects taking Ozempic for weight loss, calling it a medicine for diabetics and criticizing food advertising on television.
• Margolyes says she would ask to be "put down" if she lost speech, continence or cognitive function, rejecting a drawn‑out decline.
• She plans to avoid further major surgery, saying after a 2023 transcatheter aortic valve implantation she doubts she would recover from another operation, including a needed knee procedure.
• She hopes to live more of the year with partner Heather Sutherland at their longtime home in Italy.