'He never told me he was ill. And now, I think that night I saw him was his way of saying goodbye to me without saying goodbye,' Steve Wilkos reflected.
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Wilkos says he thinks Springer was saying goodbye because their get-togethers were never about reminiscing about the good ol' days they spent together on. When they would get together, they'd talk about his grandkids or how he's doing. It was never a walk down memory lane, but this meeting about a month ago was exactly that. Only now does Wilkos realize the nature of that conversation and their interaction was unlike any they ever had.
"And I was telling my wife, for me, it makes a lot of sense today," he continues."I'm hearing that he had pancreatic cancer, but he did not say anything to me. So, I'm really not sure. But if it's true, then he definitely said goodbye to me in a way that he was letting me know that that was the end." Springer's personal publicist, aired from 1987 to 1998, also told ET he was shocked to hear of Springer's death.
Springer, the iconic talk show host who also was a news anchor in Ohio before becoming the mayor of Cincinnati and then a nationally-syndicated talk show host,"I can't get in his head. I don't know why he would keep it a secret," said Rivera of the diagnosis."But it's a very, very rough illness, so I can only surmise that Jerry didn't want to be the topic of one of his own shows.
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