Bob Saget revealed how he came to accept mortality in interview before his death
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.
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