Actress announces illness

NEW YORK -- After nearly 20 years of dealing with the illness, Teri Garr has revealed that she has multiple sclerosis.\nGarr, who received an Oscar nomination for supporting actress for the 1982 movie "Tootsie," told CNN's Larry King on Tuesday night that she kept the disease secret for years because she "didn't feel it was necessary to tell anybody."\nGarr said she didn't know she had the disease for several years because MS is difficult to diagnose. She said she is speaking out to help other people deal with the disease.\n"I think now, the good news is there is a lot of good medicine out there," she said. "If I can just help people to feel better."\nAbout 350,000 Americans have MS, a incurable nerve disease that sometimes causes paralysis.