Gene Wilder's widow, Karen Boyer, detailed the 'Blazing Saddle' star's Alzheimer diagnosis and final days in documentary released 7 years after his death.
Karen Boyer, Gene Wilder's widow, remembered the last words her late husband said before his death in August 2016. A new 'Remembering Gene Wilder' documentary focused on the actor's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease and into his final days. In the film, Boyer recalled listening to Ella Fitzgerald's legendary hit, 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' with Gene before he spoke for the last time.
The music was playing in the background — Ella Fitzgerald was singing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' and I was lying next to him, and he sat up in bed, and he said, 'I trust you,'' she said, per People magazine. 'And then he said, 'I love you.' That's the last thing he said.' A LOOK AT THE 3 ‘CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY’ FILMS CREATED SINCE THE 1964 BOOK BY ROALD DAHL Wilder died on August 29, 2016, from complications with Alzheimer's disease.
So I'm not sure that he ever knew. When I'd see him slip away further from me, I was sick to my stomach, but I had to keep smiling and tell him that everything was okay.' Boyer added, 'Gene was wonderful; he was the best husband I think anybody could ask for. To love and be loved is the best gift anybody could ask for, and we had that.' CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Wilder was married four times.
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