Larry King, the 87-year-old broadcasting legend who recently passed away on January 23 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Shawn Southwick Kins, his wife stated that he was hospitalised weeks before contracting COVID-19, the primary cause of death as mentioned in his death certificate was sepsis.
According to reports, the certificate additionally shows that he had two underlying conditions or as the document lists them as acute hypoxic respiratory failure and end-stage renal disease, commonly known as kidney failure.
“It was an infection; it was sepsis,” Shawn stated. “Well, he was finally ready to go, I will tell you that. You know, he never wanted to go but his sweet little body was just, it had just been hit so many times with so many things and once we heard the word COVID, all of our hearts just sunk. But he beat it, you know, he beat it, but it did take its toll and then the unrelated infection finally is what took him, but boy, he was not gonna go down easily.”
King filed for divorce from Shawn in August 2019 after 22 years of marriage; however, their divorce wasn’t final. Shawn mentioned that King’s mind “wasn’t right” and his “body was going,” noting it was difficult to witness.
