Overview
- Hedren was photographed outside Griffith’s home during a family celebration marking her Jan. 19 birthday, a rare public sighting at age 96.
- Images show the actress walking with assistance and being helped on stairs as she arrived and departed the event.
- Fox News reported the man assisting her was assumed to be her grandson Alexander Bauer, noting the identification was not definitive.
- The Daily Mail previously cited a Spanish journalist’s claim that Hedren has dementia, a report not confirmed by her representatives, and Page Six said a new request for comment went unanswered.
- Griffith wrote in a January 2025 Instagram post that her mother was “healthy,” and coverage also revisits Hedren’s legacy from The Birds and her 2016 memoir alleging Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted her.