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Headline: Gene Wilder's widow reveals his final words
Caption: Karen recalled Gene's final days in a new documentary, Remembering Gene Wilder. The Willy Wonka star died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, aged 83. Karen told how the couple listened to Ella Fitzgerald's Somewhere Over the Rainbow as they lay in bed together. "I was lying next to him, and he sat up in bed, and he said, 'I trust you,'" she said. "And then he said, 'I love you.' That's the last thing he said." She went on to admit how Gene wasn't really aware of how ill he was...
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