Shawn King talked about his final moments with the late husband Larry King.
“We were able to do FaceTime at the hospital and it was difficult for him to speak, but the only message he wanted to make sure I heard was: ‘I love you, take care of the boys,’” she told Entertainment Tonight of the final moments of the famous broadcaster. .
Shawn, 61, and Larry shared two children, Chance, 21, and Cannon, 20. He also leaves his eldest son, Larry King Jr., 59, from his marriage to Annette Kaye.
Larry died on Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87 years old.
Although Larry’s sixth wife, Julia Alexander, told the Post that he died of coronavirus, which he contracted in December, Shawn said that was not the real cause of death.
“It was an infection, it was sepsis,” she told the agency. “Well, he was finally ready to go, I’ll tell you that. You know, he never wanted to go, but his sweet little body was simply, it had been hit so many times with so many things and when we heard the word COVID, all our hearts sank. But he won, you know, he won, but he took his toll and then the unrelated infection was finally what got him, but man, he wasn’t going to fall easily. ”
Shawn, who was in the middle of divorce from the legendary CNN host, said he never thought they would end the split because of the partnership.
“Larry and I, you know, never ended our divorce,” she noted. “In my heart, I didn’t think it was really going to happen and it never happened. We were partners in every way, in business and, well, first in our family and then in business. … You know, family is the most important thing, and God. “
The family put Larry to rest this week and paid tribute in the most appropriate way possible – using his signature accessory.
“All of us, we were just one family, wore Larry’s suspenders, each of us,” she said. “And it was beautiful, loving… just perfect, just perfect. It was family. There was no showbiz, no, nothing like that.
“Death is perhaps the great equalizer, I think,” she continued. “You know, when you experience this with people we really love, all the other noise and bullshit that may be around, it just goes away and the family comes together. And that’s what happened. You know, it was beautiful. “