Larry King s heartbroken wife Shawn has claimed the TV icon died of sepsis and was ready to go .
The legendary late-night host died on Saturday aged 87 after a recent battle with Covid which saw him hospitalized.
King s seventh wife Shawn Southwick, whom he married in 1997 and was in the midst of a divorce with at the time of his death, says he could not overcome an infection after beating coronavirus.
She also revealed his last words to her, telling her over a video call from hospital: ‘I love you, take care of the boys .
Larry King s wife Shawn has claimed the TV icon died of sepsis and was ready to go after a recent battle with Covid (pictured in 1997)
Shawn King revealed that Larry King was able to beat COVID-19 while in the hospital.
January 28, 2021 08:49 GMT
Larry King s wife, Shawn, revealed that her husband s cause of death is not COVID-19 as previously reported. Instead, he died from an infection.
Shawn told ET this week that the TV legend died from sepsis. She confirmed reports that he was in the hospital because of COVID-19. But it did not kill him because he was able to beat it. It was an infection, it was sepsis.Once we heard the word COVID, all of our hearts just sunk. But he beat it, you know, he beat it, but it did take its toll and then the unrelated infection finally is what took him, but boy, he was not gonna go down easily, she shared.
I became a Larry King fan late to have become one early I would have needed to listen to him from the cradle and even in his CNN salad days, when Larry King Live! aired nightly over a quarter century, from 1985 to 2010, my attention was usually elsewhere. (I have had cause to watch the old shows since; they comprise an Alexandrian library of cultural history.)
My first sense of the host, who died Jan. 23 at 87, came instead from the old-school syndicated newspaper column that appeared in Los Angeles in the late Herald-Examiner back around the time that CNN run began, a collection of celebrity news bites and brief observations that in this century found atomized expression in his @kingsthings Twitter feed. (And also from imitations my friend Steve would do of King taking callers on his TV and/or radio show: Tampa, Florida, go ahead. )
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Larry King at the 45th International Emmy Awards at New York Hilton on November 20, 2017, in New York City. (MM/Abaca Press/TNS)
Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
I became a Larry King fan late – to have become one early I would have needed to listen to him from the cradle – and even in his CNN salad days, when “Larry King Live!” aired nightly over a quarter century, from 1985 to 2010, my attention was usually elsewhere. (I have had cause to watch the old shows since; they comprise an Alexandrian library of cultural history.)