A Harry Potter actor has expressed her desire to be ‘put down’ after telling fans she ‘doesn’t have much left to live.’

The 84-year-old legendary British actress, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series, has said that she is currently battling.

Miriam Margolyes told the Daily Mail that she is facing several health concerns and feels that she has ‘let [her] body down.’

“I have not taken care of it. I have to walk with a walker now. I wished I had exercised. It’s the worst waste of time, yet it keeps you going.” So, I’m foolish,” she joked.

The Age of Innocence actor has already discussed her diagnoses of spinal stenosis and osteoporosis, which have limited her mobility.

Margolyes told Closer Magazine in July 2024 that she can’t walk well and is listed as handicapped.

“I employ several forms of support. I have two sticks and a walker, which are very boring, but I recently received a mobility scooter, which is a lot of fun.”

She also told The Telegraph last year that she doesn’t ‘have long to live,’ anticipating that she will die ‘within the next five or six years, if not sooner.’

The celebrity, who also has Australian citizenship and hopes to permanently relocate to the Italian home she shares with her partner of nearly 60 years, Heather Sunderland, has revealed to Weekend Magazine that if she loses her independence due to poor health, she would be willing to consider assisted dying.

“I do not want to go through a time of gradually reducing agony and shame. If a stroke prevented me from speaking, made me doubly incontinent, or caused me to lose my mind totally, I would request to be put down. This is because I want to be who I am. “I don’t want to be less than I can be,” she stated.

Assisted dying is accessible in over ten states in the United States; however, it is not yet legal in the United Kingdom, where Margolyes lives.

However, the British government considered the issue and decided in support of a measure to legalize the procedure for terminally sick persons aged 18 and up.

If passed, the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ would allow only those who are mentally competent and have six months or less to live to end their lives with medical assistance, and it would require approval from doctors and a panel consisting of a social worker, a legal figure, and a psychiatrist.

It also differs from euthanasia in that people can give the medications themselves, rather than a doctor.

While Margolyes has made the honest admission, she is in typical high spirits, laughing about her unconventional lifestyle and food choices over the years.

“I’ve limited my life because I longed for fudge, chopped liver, and cheesecake,” she previously said on the How to Fail podcast.

“All this absurdity. I should not have been so greedy. “I should’ve been stronger.”