Gene Wilder’s widow recalls actor’s sweet final words in new documentary
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.