![]() ![]() Tommaso Boddi/Getty Lucien Capehart/Getty From left: Elton John and Kathryn and Rush Limbaugh Never miss a story - sign up for PEOPLE 's free weekly newsletter to get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday. Kathryn, Rush's fourth wife, also told listeners how the pair came up with the idea of inviting Elton John to sing at their 2010 wedding in Palm Beach, when the couple was staying a floor below the singer at the same hotel in Hawaii a year prior to the nuptials. "That's something that was not really highly told over the years, or really publicized or written about, but it certainly should be part of his legacy: He's one of the most generous people and celebrities that you could ever find," she said. Like friends of theirs in Palm Beach, Florida, Kathryn insisted that Rush was different off the air. But we were very, very close from the early, early days of that meeting." Rush and I became friends, for many years, before we actually got married. "And from that moment on," she continued, "I knew that everything that you read and hear is not necessarily accurate. "He walked in, he was extraordinarily humble and kind, and I thought to myself - this isn't quite the person that I thought was going to be arriving." "I thought, I've heard a lot about him, but I will give it a shot anyway," she said Monday. ![]() ![]() Rewind back to that celebrity golf tournament and Kathryn decided to invite Rush. Over the years, he also apologized for some of these remarks but steadfastly stood by others, and his audience remained loyal to his point of view on the issues of the day. "Believe it or not, I put him down on maybe B or C, just based on what I thought I knew of him," she said on the show.īy then, Rush was one of the most popular and most divisive right-wing personalities in the country - both adored and widely loathed.Ī pioneering say-anything radio host, he made numerous inflammatory comments over the years: mocking former President Barack Obama as "Barack the Magic Negro" relishing the deaths of AIDS victims and savaging women's activism, including calling a college student advocating for contraception a "slut." RELATED: Rush Limbaugh's Most Controversial Quotes Kathryn shared details of how John came to play at their 2010 wedding - a familiar story to longtime listeners - and how she met Rush: Kathryn said she originally considered him a C-list celebrity and had little interest in the often vile-sounding talk-radio star who had a string of controversies and legions of critics.īut she saw a different side of him in person, she said.Įlsewhere on Monday's show, Kathryn announced there will be a virtual memorial in the coming weeks for Rush, who died of complications from lung cancer. "And he was able to listen to that song and we remembered our wedding and Elton John." "I played that for Rush in his final days," she said Monday during a two-hour guest slot on her husband's show, her first extensive public comments since he died last Wednesday. Limbaugh was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2020Īs conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was dying from cancer earlier this month, his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh, provided comfort through their favorite tune: Elton John's "Your Song." "So many people have put me first in all of this," Limbaugh said. "I feel extremely fortunate and lucky. And because I’ve been able to outlive the diagnosis, I’ve been able to receive and hear and process some of the most wonderful, nice things about me that I might not have ever heard if I had not gotten sick.Rush Limbaugh, Wildly Controversial and Wildly Popular Talk Radio Host, Dies President Trump awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address in February. A lot of people never get told that, so they don't face life this way." "I can't be self-absorbed about it, when that is the tendency when you are told that you've got a due date," he said emotionally. "You have an expiration date. Big… I’m indestructible. It can’t be right, but it was." Limbaugh revealed that he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in February, a "terminal diagnosis" that multiple doctors confirmed in late January. The radio host said he was "shocked" by his "dire" illness, adding, "I’m Rush Limbaugh. ![]()
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