Alex Trebek credits his wife Jean with keeping him ‘alive’ during his cancer battle.
The Jeopardy! host has been married to Jean for 30 years, and has credited her with saving his life amid his year-long battle with stage four pancreatic cancer, as he says that without her, he would have ‘put [him]self out of this’ by now.
‘She’s kept me alive. If it weren’t for Jean, I’d have put myself out of this a long time ago,’ the TV personality told People.
![She supports him: Alex Trebek credits his wife Jean with keeping him 'alive' during his cancer battle. The Jeopardy! host has been married to Jean for 30 years, and has credited her with saving his life amid his year-long battle with stage four pancreatic cancer, as he says that without her, he would have 'put [him]self out of this' by now. Seen in June 2019](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/07/22/18/31071876-8549755-image-a-44_1595437565357.jpg)
She supports him: Alex Trebek credits his wife Jean with keeping him ‘alive’ during his cancer battle. The Jeopardy! host has been married to Jean for 30 years, and has credited her with saving his life amid his year-long battle with stage four pancreatic cancer, as he says that without her, he would have ‘put [him]self out of this’ by now. Seen in June 2019
He leans on her: ‘She’s kept me alive. If it weren’t for Jean, I’d have put myself out of this a long time ago,’ the personality told People. The two also posed for a photo shoot for the magazine with Alec looking healthy as he wore a dark blue top. His wife opted for a maroon blouse
‘Love has kept me alive,’ he added. Trebek also said that he wants a ‘longer life’ with his spouse.
The two also posed for a photo shoot for the magazine with Alec looking healthy as he wore a dark blue top. His wife opted for a maroon blouse and added a beaded bracelet with a wing pendant.
The publication obtained a snippet of Alex’s new memoir, The Answer Is… Reflections On My Life, in which he said he knew he would ‘end up with’ Jean the moment they met in 1988.
Writing in his book – which is out now – he explained: ‘With Jean it just happened. Sometimes you look at something, you look at someone, and you know.
‘I mean, you’ve heard stories of people who meet and decide within half an hour; I knew this was going to be the person I’d end up with.
Seen in May 1990
‘With Jeanie that’s how it was. I wasn’t looking for love. But I recognized at a gut level that here was someone who was going to complete me as a human being.’
The publication also obtained a snippet of Alex’s new memoir, The Answer Is… Reflections On My Life, in which he said he knew he would ‘end up with’ Jean the moment they met in 1988
The 80-year-old game show host also recalled making a ‘Jeopardy!’ joke in the middle of his 1990 wedding.
He added: ‘When the minister said, ‘Do you, Alex, take Jean to be your wife?’ I said, ‘The answer is … Yes.’
‘Leave it to me, always trying to go for a laugh. And I got one. Everybody cracked up.’
Meanwhile, Alex recently said Jean has been a ‘saint’ during his cancer battle, but said he’s worried he could be a ‘burden on her’.
He said: ‘There was one day a few weeks ago when [my wife] Jeanie asked me in the morning, ‘How do you feel?’ And I said, ‘I feel like I wanna die.’ It was that bad. I apologise to her and explain that it has nothing to do with my love for her or my feelings for her.
‘It just has to do with the fact that I feel like I’m a terrible burden to her, and that bothers me tremendously.
‘She’s a saint. She has so much goodness in her that she is always giving out, always putting out to help me get over difficult moments. And there have been some difficult moments. I’m just in awe of the way she handles it.’
Also this week DailyMail.com shared an exclusive look at another book, Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography by Lisa Rogak.
Love at first sight: Writing in his book – which is out now – he explained: ‘With Jean it just happened. Sometimes you look at something, you look at someone, and you know.’ Seen in June 2015
Trebek was so depressed after his Playboy Bunny wife divorced him that he spent evenings in bed feasting on fried chicken and drinking white wine.
The TV host said he got through the ‘worst time in my life’ by curling up with a bucket of KFC for nights on end.
Trebek called himself a ‘very depressed monk’ after splitting from his wife Elaine Callei, then his father dying of cancer and his career hitting the skids at the same time.
The episode is recounted in a biography of Trebek who has hosted Jeopardy! for the past 26 years.
Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography by Lisa Rogak claims that NBC lied to US immigration about the Canadian host having a photographic memory to get him his big break in America.
The book also claims that Trebek once ate four brownies without realizing they had marijuana in them and spent the next three days in bed because he was so spaced out.
![More on his spouse: Meanwhile, Alex recently said Jean has been a 'saint' during his cancer battle, but said he's worried he could be a 'burden on her'. He said: 'There was one day a few weeks ago when [my wife] Jeanie asked me in the morning, "How do you feel?'" And I said, "I feel like I wanna die." It was that bad.' Seen on Jeopardy!](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/07/22/18/31073084-8549755-image-a-48_1595439767588.jpg)
More on his spouse: Meanwhile, Alex recently said Jean has been a ‘saint’ during his cancer battle, but said he’s worried he could be a ‘burden on her’. He said: ‘There was one day a few weeks ago when [my wife] Jeanie asked me in the morning, “How do you feel?'” And I said, “I feel like I wanna die.” It was that bad.’ Seen on Jeopardy!
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