“I’m under a doctor’s care, and everything is cool.

In a 2010interviewwith Paul Freeman, Lewis recalled, “I guessed [Lapinsky] was Italian and 33.

She said, ‘Let’s nip this in the bud.

Richard Lewis and wife Joyce Lapinsky

I’m a Jew from Minnesota.

A year later, she produced “Robert Schimmel: Unprotected,” another comedy but in documentary form.

She switched careers in 2005 and became a program development consultant for Urban Farming, a nonprofit organization.

Joyce Lapinsky smiling

In 2004, Lewis and Lapinsky got engaged, marrying the following year.

However, they opted not to live together full-time.

“When you walk into the bathroom, it opens automatically.

late Richard Lewis and wife Joyce Lapinsky

I call it Sal,” the late comedian quipped when speaking to theChicago Tribunein 2020.

Lapinsky and Lewis had no children.