There are numerous pictures of the handsome TLC host withhis handsome husband, Jeremiah Brent.
“I’ve defined everything by my ability to survive,” he wrote.
From business to breakups, it’s helped me gain perspective."
In the moment, though, all they knew was survival.
Speaking with"The Oprah Winfrey Show,“Berkus described the unbelievably horrific ordeal in detail.
The two managed to stay together for a time, but the water kept rushing.
“[Fernando] looked at me and said, ‘It’s not over,'” Berkus remembered.
He borrowed a phone and called his mother, leaving a frightening voicemail.
“Listen to me very carefully, okay?
There’s been a horrible natural disaster in Sri Lanka,” he told her.
“I am fine.”
“I convinced myself he was going to be fine,” he wrote.
“He was a strong swimmer; he was a surfer.
He’d grown up in the Brazilian jungle.
If anybody could handle himself, it was Fernando.”
“I was hurt, we were running out of food, we were running out of water.
Some of the water we were drinking we thought was contaminated,” he said.
Another survivor told him, “It’s the right thing to do.
Get on the helicopter because you could’t do anything for him here.”
“2005 began with me lying in bed, unable to eat, unable to string a sentence together.
“A psychotherapist showed up at the house every day,” he recalled.
“It’s no wonder I couldn’t sustain much of a conversation with anybody.”
“She crawled into bed beside me and listened while I cried,” Berkus wrote.
He asked, “Why?”
and after some time, Winfrey gave him an answer.
Berkus wrote, “Because of Fernando, I hold the people I love a little bit longer.”
In fact, he’d had a fear of water since he was young.
That wasn’t the only fear that followed Berkus after the tragedy.
“I was never good at being sad.”
In 2021, his husband, Jeremiah Brent, shared that Berkus had finally overcome his fear.
There is no one like him.”
Nate Berkus’ father died of brain cancer
In 2015, Nate Berkus shared sometragic newson Instagram.
He posted a photo from his wedding day, featuring himself and his father laughing in suits.
“He was the most generous and funny man and my stepmother and brothers are devastated.”
Despite the sad occasion, the interior designer took the time to share a happy memory with his followers.
On Instagram in 2020, he shared aphotoof himself in a white shirt.
“Support the advancement of cancer immunotherapy research.”
“I don’t really believe in self-diagnosing.
I have such a great relationship with my dermatologist he’s literally on speed dial,” Berkus said.
“I send them photographs of things that I see on myself.
I’m like, ‘Live or die?
Weigh in.'”
Soon enough, he’d been diagnosed with psoriasis.
“It’s frustrating,” he said.
“It can be isolating.
To raise awareness of the condition, Berkus partnered with AbbVie, a pharmaceutical research company.
Evidently, Berger got along very well with Nate Berkus.
Back in 2010, hetweetedabout just how much he loved hanging out with the collector and her husband.
“Saying goodbye to barbara and maurizio berger is always hard for me,” he wrote.
“two of my favorite people in the world.”
Unfortunately, Berger passed away in 2024, and Berkus had to say goodbye for good.
He shareda tributeto his friend on Instagram, including a carousel of photos of them together.
