Kim Campbell

Preparing for this interview was extremely difficult. Nobody grows up to one day talk about the artists that helped shape your passion for music. I was that kid in my bedroom playing Glen Campbell pretending to be a radio disc jockey. Only to find myself on KOYN KOOK KXLO EZ 104 and countless others truly pushing the needles on full volume to reach listeners just passing by. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Glen's wife Kim. Virgil Films Proudly Announces The VOD and DVD Release of James Keach's GLEN CAMPBELL...I'LL BE ME. Available on EST Digital Platforms on August 18th. Available on DVD and VOD on September 1st. Virgil Films announces the VOD and DVD release of Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me, a new documentary film about the country/pop superstar produced and directed by filmmaker James Keach (Walk the Line). The film, which will aired on CNN on June 28th, became the most-watched CNN Films broadcast in the franchise's history with over 2.76 million viewers on the night of its premiere. Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me will be available on digital platforms (EST) on August 18th followed by a DVD and VOD release on September 1st. Glen Campbell... I'll Be Me was directed by James Keach (producer of Walk the Line) and produced by Trevor Albert (producer of Groundhog Day) and Keach. Keach and Albert also collaborated on the award winning film, Waiting for Forever. "The making of this film has been an exhilarating, joyous and inspiring ride. I attribute that entirely to the heroic spirit of Glen Campbell and his extraordinary family," said producer Trevor Albert. In 2011, music legend Glen Campbell set out on an unprecedented tour across America. They thought it would last 5 weeks, instead it went for 151 spectacular sold out shows over a triumphant year and a half across America. What made this tour extraordinary was that Glen had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was told to hang up his guitar and prepare for the inevitable. Instead, Glen and his wife Kim went public with his diagnosis and announced that he and his family would set out on a "Goodbye Tour." The film documents this amazing journey as he and his family attempt to navigate the wildly unpredictable nature of Glen's progressing disease using love, laughter and music as their medicine of choice. Special appearances include Bruce Springsteen, The Edge, Paul McCartney, Blake Shelton, Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Steve Martin, Chad Smith and Bill Clinton among many others. "We are honored to bring this portrait of Glen Campbell to American audiences," said said Joe Amodei of Virgil Films. "This great entertainer and his indelible music have been a part of so many lives for decades, we look forward to reminding everyone of what's so special about him." Keach added "the legacy Glen Campbell and his incredibly courageous family share in this film is one of the most important movies I have been blessed to have worked on. Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me will forever inspire me as a filmmaker and a man. Glen is a real life hero on and off the stage." MAY 2015 ARTICLE ON KIM & GLEN CAMPBELL FROM ABCNEWS.COM Glen Campbell's Life Living With Alzheimer's By Michael Rothman Glen Campbell is a Grammy-winning country music icon, but his wife Kim Campbell says one of the most important things the legend has done in his life is to "help remove the stigma of Alzheimer's disease." Glen was diagnosed with the disease in 2011, went public and embarked on a farewell tour with his family, including his wife and their three children -- Cal, Shannon and Ashley -- which ended in 2012. Kim said the experience touring with their father only brought the immediate family closer together and really shed light on the disease. "I'm so proud of the kids and the time we had on the road during the goodbye tour," she told ABC News. "It was such a gift to us to be able to celebrate his life. They learned so much from him ... not only as a musician, but as a human being." The tour was featured in the documentary "Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me" and Kim said her daughter Ashley "actually wrote a song for her dad in the documentary called 'Remembering.' I'm hoping in the summer, it will be played on the radio, so we are excited about that. The documentary is uplifting and positive." That's the message Kim wants to spread. "A lot of people are afraid if it's Alzheimer's in the subject, it's going to be very depressing," she said. "It's something people have kept under the covers and felt like they needed to be discrete about, but it's a disease that affects 5.4 million people in the United States and almost every single family is touched with it, and it's nothing to be embarrassed about. People rally around you and want to give you all the support that's possible." For that reason, she has continued her husband's work of raising awareness for the disease, while he cannot. The Campbell family just celebrated Glen's 79th birthday on April 22, and Kim said "it was a really good day." "The kids and I went [to see him]," she said. "He was a little sleepy at first, but we brought him burgers and fries, his favorite food. Once he got up and moving around, he was just having a great day." Campbell is unable to communicate more than just a few, short sentences, but that doesn't stop him from cracking jokes. "He was communicating better than I've seen him in a long time that day," she said. "We were sitting there eating ice cream cake and he told the punch line to one of his jokes. Then, I told the set up for it. He just laughed and laughed and laughed." She continued, "He's still got his same twinkle in his eye ... he just has trouble communicating now and of course his memory. We had a great day filled with laughter, love and hugs ... you have to make the most out of each moment you have with him." With Campbell now in a long-term care facility since March of last year, the support community has helped Kim exponentially, as well as her husband. "It's really sad to be losing the one you love day by day, drip by drip, there's nothing you can do about it though. I go to bed depressed, I wake up depressed, but you have to tell yourself 'I have so much to be thankful for.' ... I'm visiting Glen everyday in the memory support community, I know all the other patients and their families, we are a community and I try to be a blessing to them everyday too." She continued, "I have been blessed with such a great family ... when the doctors advised me Glen would really benefit from being in a support community for people with cognitive issues, I tried it out and it made a big difference for his happiness and his well-being. We can't do anything about the disease, but we can try and make life as good as possible. It's helped me too with my depression, because now my support team is even bigger. That's given me the piece of mind to be able to go out and speak about it."