Several American media confirmed that the famous driver of Larry King’s show is admitted to Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he is isolated and unable to receive visits from his ex-wife, Shawn King, whom he divorced in 2019, or his children Cannon and Chance.
A source close to the TV figure told ABC News that “Larry has been struggling with a lot of health issues in recent years, so now he’s fighting very hard against covid. He’s a champion.”
King, 87, suffers from type 2 diabetes and last year survived a stroke after an angioplasty in which he was implanted with a stent, to clear the arteries in the heart.
Presenter Larry King with Ben Affleck, in a show on his show in 2005.
In 2020, the presenter also lost two of his children tragically and a few weeks apart: Andy, 65, of a heart attack, and Chaia, 51, a victim of lung cancer.
“It is with sadness and a broken father’s heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of my children, Andy King and Chaia King. Both were kind and kind and will be greatly missed,” King said in a post to Facebook last August, in which he stressed that “no father should have to bury a child”
Throughout his life, Larry King has survived a heart attack in 1987, as well as lung and prostate cancer.
The presenter rose to fame with the radio show The Larry King Show, which aired from 1978 to 1994. He then jumped on television with Larry King Live, which aired on CNN since from 1985 to 2010.
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