He was also a lovely and deeply decent man, and I’m grateful for every minute I got to spend with him,” tweeted “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings. I’m just in awe of the way she handles it.“Alex wasn’t just the best ever at what he did. “And there have been some difficult moments. “She has so much goodness in her that she is always giving out, always putting out to help me get over difficult moments,” he said of his wife. In July, Alex admitted he sometimes feels like a “ terrible burden” on his wife but called her a “saint.” Sending a reassuring email, calling someone, sharing a cup of tea. “Not just for Alex but for one of our friends. Then I’ll say, ‘That’s enough, Jean.’ I’ll try to do something for someone else to pull myself out of it,” she explained. “Truth to tell, some days I feel really sad and angry. Jean has encouraged him to drop his “meat and potatoes” diet for a mostly vegetarian one, including quinoa pasta, but no matter how well he’s doing, she can’t help but wonder why this happened to her and Alex. It rejuvenates him.” Alex and Jean Trebek Getty Images for AFI so he can do several episodes in a single day. He truly looks forward to getting to the studio at 5:45 a.m. That passion for his work - it’s a kind of calling. “Some days it’s a struggle for Alex to get out of bed. “More than a year and a half later, we’re still at it, every day a gift,” she wrote. With every session, she wondered how much time she had left with her beloved husband. His friendship - we were friends for a long time before becoming a couple - changed my life.”Īlex began chemotherapy immediately, with his wife driving him once a week to his appointment. “I met him when I was 21, a challenging period in my life. Alex has been everything to me,” Jean wrote. “It felt as if the bottom dropped out of my world. It was then that they received the news that the TV star had stage 4 pancreatic cancer and a tumor that had spread to his stomach. Alex’s doctor called them “within hours” and said they had to return. The couple, who married in 1990, cut their trip short and returned to LA, where the author of “ The Answer Is …: Reflections On My Life” had a CT scan at Cedars-Sinai. “‘We need to see you as soon as you get back from your trip. It was there, in our hotel, that we got a call from his doctor,” Jean, 56, wrote in an essay for Guideposts last month. We weren’t so worried that we canceled a trip to New York. “His doctor ran some tests, then some more. His health didn’t improve upon returning to Los Angeles, so the couple decided to see his physician. Alex, 80, said his stomach was hurting but he chalked it up to eating unusual foods in a different country. Katie Couric in 'Jeopardy!' over GOP 'deprogram' commentsĪlex Trebek was in 'enormous pain' during final 'Jeopardy!' tapings: EPĪlex Trebek’s wife suspected something might have been wrong prior to his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.ĭuring a 2018 family trip to Israel, Jean Trebek asked the “Jeopardy!” host if he was feeling OK after she noticed his complexion was paler than usual. Ken Jennings reveals the 'cringey' part of 'Jeopardy!' he 'never liked'Īlex Trebek's widow Jean still feels 'waves of grief' after his death
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