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Richard Cohen, husband of journalist and TV host Meredith Vieira, passed away on Christmas Eve 2024.
According to Kotb, Vieria and their children were worried about Cohen potentially passing around Thanksgiving of last year.
“Instead, they got a glorious month with their dad,” Kotb said.
Like his wife, Cohen was a respected journalist himself.
She never inched," Cohen wrote in his 2018 memoir"Chasing Hope.
““It certainly wasn’t enough to scare me off,” Vieira toldYahoo!
Still, their marriage wasn’t without its struggles due to Cohen’s illness.
In “Chasing Hope,” Cohen described a day when he fell several times but refused help.
This angered Vieira to no end.
“Meredith had a different take on the situation.
She had been pushed over the edge.
She angrily told me she was done with the MS.
I still can visualize the desperation on her face,” he wrote.
Cohen became very cognizant of his illness’s impact on Vieira.
However, the couple persevered and would vent together over their frustrations with multiple sclerosis.
“That’s part of the deal,“Vieira told Peoplein 2019.
“Certainly, he’s allowed to vent …
But I am too.
Because there are days I can’t stand it and the limitations it puts on the entire family …
But we don’t dwell.”
