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. »
Wilder died on August 29, 2016, from complications with Alzheimer’s disease.
