‘We are heartbroken to report that our dear Bob died today. His family said they were ‘devastated’ in a statement released on Sunday. He is survived by his three adult children, Aubrey, 34, Lara, 32, and Jennifer, 29, as well as his wife, Kelly Rizzo, 42. The comic was ecstatic to be performing stand-up again, and he said he was ‘loving every minute’ of it in a devastating final Instagram post on Saturday.Īndrea Saget, his other sister, died of a cerebral aneurism when she was 35 years old in 1984.ĭolly and Benjamin, his parents, died in 20, respectively. It’s unknown whether he was sick at the time of his death. Dolly died in 2014, while Benjamin died in 2007. When Saget was a teenager, he was photographed with his parents, Dolly and Benjamin. There were no evident indicators of foul play or drug usage, according to police. On Sunday at 4 p.m., Saget was discovered in his room at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando.
#GAY SAGET AFTER SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS FULL#
Saget was seen on Full House in 1987 with (L–R) Mary-Kate/Ashley Olsen, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos, and Candace Cameron Bure seen on Full House in 1987 with (L–R) Mary-Kate/Ashley Olsen, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos, and Candace Cameron Bure seen on Full House in 1987 with (L–R) Mary-Kate/A He is also survived by his three children, Aubrey, 34, Lara, 32, and Jennifer, 29, whom he shares with his first wife Sherri Kramer, with whom he was married from 1982 until 1997. On Sunday, Aubrey Saget sent this final text from her father to Instagram. Saget worked with the Scleroderma Research Foundation until his death a few days ago.īob Saget, 65, is survived by his second wife Kelly Rizzo (seen with him on their wedding day in 2018).
Scleroderma is not a hereditary illness, and it is uncommon for sufferers’ immediate family members to be diagnosed as well. ‘Because she required so much assistance, she had to go to Los Angeles and live with my parents.’ Only two years later, she went dead.’ ‘She received therapy, but it consisted solely of prednisone and cortisone to alleviate her symptoms.’ ‘She was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma at the age of 44.’ The star of Full House was discovered deceased in an…īob Saget talked about his mentor and how his approach has changed over time…
Saget, who became a champion for finding a therapy for scleroderma, said in a 2019 interview with the NIH Magazine: ‘My sister, Gay Saget, was a school teacher near Philadelphia.’īob Saget has died at the age of 65. Gay had to move back in with her parents before she died because she required so much care. He wrote that performing reminded him of “when I was 26,” and that he was “finding my new voice and loved every minute of it.” Saget’s final tweets and Instagram posts were posted late Saturday night after his final performance in Jacksonville, Florida. He earlier posted a photo of the two of them together. Andrea had a cerebral aneurism, and Gay had an autoimmune illness. Saget’s sisters, Gay and Andrea, both died while they were young adults, resulting in a tragic family history. Gay died of an autoimmune illness at the age of 47 in 1994. Gay, Saget’s older sister, is depicted with him and their mother Dolly in the photo above. Gay, his second older sister, died nine years later at the age of 47, after a three-year battle with the autoimmune disease scleroderma.
Andrea Saget, Saget’s older sister, died in 1985 at the age of 35 from a brain aneurism.