and she became one and they say, without her there would be no miley cyrus, no selena gomez and contracted it disney the better part of 20 years and the playing in "monkey's uncle", "the shaggy dog". >> and the beach party movies and came out in 1992 saying she had multiple sclerosis and started a foundation to raise a great deal of money for that. in the last five or six years of her life, it was horrible. she was confined to a wheelchair and we were told that she had trouble seeing, in fact, some said that she was blind. and had to use oxygen to actually breathe. last year, her home was destroyed by a fire and she was in a wheelchair, and barely got out, and we're told today that she finally succumbed to her illness, multiple sclerosis, age 70,