Kelly Rizzo read several entries from her “grief journal” during an emotional episode of her “Comfort Food” podcast.

Bob Saget’s wife reveals ‘very sad’ final memory together before his sudden death

Kelly Rizzo read several entries from her "grief journal" during an emotional episode of her "Comfort Food" podcast.

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Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo in 2021. Credit:

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- Kelly Rizzo, Bob Saget's second wife, is sharing a "very sad" memory of her final moments with the actor before his death.

- Rizzo read several entires from a "grief journal" she kept at the time of his death, which she hoped "can help anyone else who's grieving."

- Saget died suddenly in 2022 at the age of 65 after accidentally hitting his head.

Kelly Rizzo is opening up about her final memory with husband Bob Saget before his death.

The TV host and content creator married Saget in 2018, and they remained together until his sudden death in 2022 at the age of 65. Rizzo has previously spoken publicly about her grief and the long road to healing, but she took to her *Comfort Food *podcast on Wednesday to share a painful memory she recently uncovered from their final moments together.

"I found my grief journal. I had no idea that I even did this because I wrote in this less than a month after Bob passed away. And to be honest, I was still in such a fog that I didn't even remember writing in this," Rizzo stated at the top of Wednesday's episode. "I looked and I was like, 'Oh, wow. A grief journal. Wish I would have written in that at the time.'"

It turns out she did.

Rizzo and Saget in 2017.

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Rizzo explained that she has been "so upset" in the past over her decision not to have kept a record of her life following Saget's death. "It's just never been my thing. I kind of feel like a fraud when I'm doing it because it's just so not me, that it always feels so forced."

So, she continued, holding up a thick, white notebook, "I came across this just expecting it to be blank. And to my surprise — I mean, it's 95 percent blank — but to my surprise, I'm like, 'Wait, there's writing in this?'"

Rizzo discovered several entries from about a month before Saget's death in Jan. 2022. Some were happy, like an entry detailing her and Saget's pet names for each other. Others were unexpected, like Rizzo writing, "I loved the sound of him chewing and gnawing on a bone." And some others still were "so painful," like realizing there was no one "coming home" to all of Saget's clothes and belongings.

There was one more entry Rizzo described as "very sad."

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"I didn't remember this until I just saw this," Rizzo said, describing an entry recording their final day together, before Saget would board a plane to Florida and suffer a fatal fall in his Orlando hotel room. "'We watched *Tick, Tick... Boom!* together. We raved about how amazing Andrew Garfield was. We ate Sugarfish.' And then I said, 'I told him how much I loved him, but we didn't kiss."

"I wish so badly we would have because he was just getting over COVID," she said, explaining that she didn't want to potentially get him sick again. "So, we didn't give each other a goodbye kiss, which makes me very sad now. But now, at least I remember what our last memory was."

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Nearly a year following Saget's death, as 2022 was drawing to a close, Rizzo shared in an interview that "the missing him and the being sad about it doesn't go away." But she was happy to report that "the grief now has really morphed into just this tremendous gratitude for the time that we had together."

On Wednesday's episode of *Comfort Food*, Rizzo expressed her hope that sharing her memories, happy and sad, "can help anyone else who's grieving, anyone else who's processing, anyone else who wants to see the distance that you can come."

You can watch Rizzo's full discussion of her grief journal on the *Comfort Food *podcast above.

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