Larry King during an awards show in New York in 2016.ANGELA WEISS / AFP
The popular interviewer and television presenter, Larry King (New York, 1933), has spent the end of the year holidays hospitalized for coronavirus.
The journalist, who is 87 years old and has suffered from several diseases including type 2 diabetes and lung cancer, has been hospitalized in the city of Los Angeles (California) for more than a week, according to sources close to the family.
"Larry has struggled with many health problems in recent years, and now he is also fighting hard, he is a champion," one of them told
ABC News
television
.
The television figure fell ill 10 days ago, according to the entertainment website
Showiz411
, which points out that King remains isolated without receiving visits from his seventh and last wife, Shawn King, from whom he divorced in 2019, nor from his children Cannon and Chance.
In May 2019, King suffered a major stroke a few weeks after undergoing an operation to implant a stent, a metal element that resolves blocked arteries.
In addition, throughout his life he has survived a heart attack in 1987, as well as lung and prostate cancer.
King suffered a severe blow in 2020, when in just over three weeks he lost two of his children: Andy, 65, to a heart attack, and Chaia, 51, a victim of lung cancer.
“It is with sadness and a broken father's heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of my children, Andy King and Chaia King.
They were both good and kind and they will be greatly missed, "King said in a Facebook post last August, stressing that" no parent should have to bury a child. "
The presenter rose to fame with the radio program "The Larry King Show," which aired from 1978 to 1994. He later made it onto television with "Larry King Live," which was seen on
CNN
for 25 years and where he interviewed. to figures from actress Angelina Jolie to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
King left
CNN
in 2010 and continued to do interviews broadcast on its website.
In 2012 he launched the show "Larry King Now" on Ora TV, a
streaming
channel
that he helped found.
