Bob Saget was prominently featured throughout the “In Memoriam” section Monday on the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards, one thing his widow, Kelly Rizzo, stated made her coronary heart break “over again.” Rizzo, who wed the Full Home star in 2018, admitted on social media that she has “been a wreck all day ready for this.”
“However I do know he’d be proud for this recognition,” the Eat Journey Rock TV host, 43, captioned a video of the second. “That is nonetheless all so rattling bizarre and surreal.”
Saget was discovered lifeless in his Florida lodge room on Jan. 9. The actor’s reason for dying was the results of blunt head trauma after a probable unwitnessed fall. He was 65. Rizzo has been open about her grieving course of. In Might, she revealed she will be able to’t say “the D-word.”
“I say, ‘The day all the pieces occurred,’” Rizzo instructed her good friend Amanda Kloots.
“It’s like, he’s nonetheless my husband,” she added. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, he’s my former husband.’ It’s like … the connection is completely different now. It’s simply — it’s what it’s.”
Rizzo has remained shut with Saget’s three grownup daughters, whom he had with ex-wife Sherri Kramer, for the reason that actor’s dying.
“His women got here to stick with me for you already know, the primary time since I moved into the brand new home simply this final week, they usually walked in and I used to be like, ‘So it’s type of like a museum to your dad, so don’t freak out however sure, he’s in every single place,’” Rizzo famous. “After which they’ll catch me like speaking to an image each occasionally, they usually’re like, ‘Stepmommy Kelly, are you OK?’”
In June, Saget was posthumously awarded an Affect Award on the Fourth Annual Critics Selection Actual TV Awards in June. Rizzo attended to assist her husband.
“He was one of many pioneers within the actuality TV world,” she instructed Individuals. “That is the primary crimson carpet I’ve performed with out him. It’s very unusual. I really feel like he’s ready within the wings and he’ll be like, ‘Honey, I’ll be there in a couple of minutes.’ It nonetheless doesn’t really feel proper, however all we are able to do is our greatest and be right here to have a good time him and his legacy. That’s all I wish to do.”
Saget was additionally saluted by his Full Home co-star John Stamos, who shared a photograph on his Instagram Story of the 2 of them on the Emmys a number of years in the past.
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