
Alex Trebek's widow says she wasn't aware how beloved he was until his cancer battle
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The "Jeopardy!" host died in November 2020 after battling pancreatic cancer.
While the world knows him as a cultural icon, Jean feels grateful that she was always able to just see him as her loving husband.
"Alex was my dear husband and my most beloved friend. Like most long-term relationships, we had our ups and downs, but the truth of it was that we were very close and experienced a lot of life together," she recently explained to The Eden Magazine. "It was important to Alex to keep his personal life separate from his professional life, unless it was ‘needed,’… i.e., attending an award show or something like that. For the most part, Alex and I enjoyed staying at home. When we did go out, it was perhaps for a quick dinner or movie every now and then, so it wasn’t like we were always out in public for me to really notice his popularity."