Shawn King has opened up about her last moments with late husband Larry King.
“We were able to do FaceTime in the hospital and it was hard for him to talk, but the only message he wanted to make sure I heard was, ‘I love you, take care of the guys,’” she told Entertainment Tonight of the last moments of the famous broadcaster.
Shawn, 61, and Larry shared two sons, 21-year-old Chance and 20-year-old Cannon. He is also survived by his eldest son, 59-year-old Larry King, Jr., from his marriage to Annette Kaye.
Larry died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87.
Although Larry’s sixth wife, Julia Alexander, told The Post that he died of the coronavirus, which he contracted in December, Shawn said this was not his actual cause of death.
“It was an infection, it was sepsis,” she told the outlet. 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 ordinary, it had been hit with so many things so many times and once we heard the word COVID our hearts just sank away. But he beat it, you know, he beat it, but it took its toll and then the unrelated infection is finally what cost him, but boy he didn’t go down easily. ”
Shawn, who was in the middle of divorce proceedings from the legendary CNN host, said she never thought they would go ahead with finalizing their split because of their partnership.
“Larry and I, you know, we never finalized our divorce,” she noted. “In my heart I didn’t think it would really happen and it never did. We were partners in every way, in business, and in, 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 fitting way possible – by wearing his signature accessory.
“All of us, it was just family, we wore Larry’s braces, all of us,” she said. ‘And it was beautiful, loving … just perfect, just perfect. It was family. There was no showbiz, no, none of that.
“Death might be the great equalizer, I think,” she continued. ‘You know, when you experience it with people we really, really love, all the other noise and nonsense that could come around it, it just goes away and the family gets close together. And that’s what happened. You know, it was beautiful. “