John Stamos, George Lopez, Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, John Mayer and Robin Williams were among the friends who helped him. Through laughter and star power, Saget raised more than $26 million for the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
'It's so healthy to laugh, and I'm out there doing it and I know it's healing for people.' 'Humor is the only way my family survived,' he said.
You know, and being an actor, that's a very important thing if your hair gets out of place.'Įven as he talked about the death of his sister, humor came in. 'And it, I don't know how to explain it, but it felt like, I mean, I'm going to go all 'woo woo' here, but it felt like the soul going past us, literally felt it. 'We were all in the room when she let out her last breath,' Saget said. Her symptoms completely resolved after she started taking medication to suppress her immune system.īut when Gay Saget was diagnosed, much less was known about the disease and how to treat it. 'I couldn't hold the small dental instruments to do root canals and my hands were swollen. My face started to swell up,' Adams-Williams said. Saget’s sister Andrea died of an aneurysm at age 34 and his sister Gay died of scleroderma at age 47, reported CBS. Gay Saget was diagnosed with scleroderma in 1992 and died of the disease two years later, at age 47. Saget’s parents were married until Benjamin died in 2007. They were heavy as I was going up the steps. Bob Saget Parents (Father, Mother), Siblings.
