Bob Saget revealed how he came to accept mortality in interview before his death
07.06.2022 - 21:55
/ nypost.com
“Til This Day” podcast. “He didn’t teach it to me, I just saw how he reacted.”The “Full House” star watched his father bury four brothers and one sister, and came to accept the finality of life at the age of 65.“I’m proud of myself because I’m onto a new thing.
At 65, I’m different than I was,” the late comedian said.Saget died at 65 on January 9, 2022, of head trauma inside a hotel room in Orlando, Florida, where was on a stand-up comedy tour.“I just don’t have the same way of doing humor or conversation,” he added at the time. “I guess therapy, having three kids, watching people pass away in the past few years, mortality, all that stuff has fortunately changed me.”“My kids tell me, ‘Dad, you’re different.
It’s so nice to watch you grow.'”“The deaths] started when I was like seven, and then every two years somebody died,” he shared. “[I had] a cousin die — she died at 23 of cancer after giving birth to her child — and then a lot of cousins went through a lot of hardships, so I was like 9,10, 11, 12, 14” when they all passed, he said.
“It was a lot.”The “Fuller House” star opened up about how he leaned into the arts as a way to cope with death and loss. When his sister, Gay, died of Scleroderma in 1994, Saget had already been involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation. Though the actor was “not really successful yet” at the time of his sister’s death, he was able to use his connections at ABC to create a television movie about the condition.“I was working with ABC, so they let me make this TV movie with Dana Delaney starring in it, playing my sister,” he explained of the film, titled “For Hope.”“I’ve done over 30 years of benefits and we’ve raised over $50 million for the Scleroderma Research Foundation,” he
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