Suzanne Somers' Husband Alan Says He Still 'Feels Her Presence' After Her Death
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00:00 I still feel her presence here.
00:02 She's somewhere.
00:03 I don't know where.
00:04 I know she's here.
00:05 Suzanne Somers' husband, Alan Hamill,
00:07 is holding on to their eternal bond.
00:10 We were perfectly matched from the day we met.
00:13 55 years ago.
00:17 We give each other a lot of attention.
00:19 Love this guy, yeah.
00:20 Alan opening up about his late life
00:22 in a touching Facebook Live video,
00:24 sharing his profound thoughts on the soul
00:27 and the hereafter.
00:29 I find as I age,
00:31 I spend more time thinking about an afterlife.
00:36 And I believe there's an afterlife.
00:39 I've had a couple of experiences,
00:41 personal experiences that have really turned me on
00:44 to thinking when we go, our bodies go,
00:48 but our soul, whatever soul is, I guess it's energy,
00:51 it seems to go to another place.
00:53 I don't know where that place is,
00:55 but it seems to go to another place.
00:57 I hope it does.
00:59 We get along so great.
01:01 It's so romantic and so glamorous.
01:03 And I feel what we have is like what poets write about,
01:08 why movies get made, why songs get written.
01:11 Alan was right by Suzanne's side when she died,
01:14 leaving her with a handwritten poem
01:16 as an early birthday present that read in part,
01:19 "I weep when I think about my feelings for you.
01:22 55 years together, 46 married,
01:25 and not even one hour apart for 42 of those years."
01:30 One of our sons referred to our relationship
01:32 as functionally codependent, which I guess it was,
01:37 because I did everything she wanted to do
01:39 and she did everything I wanted to do.
01:41 Alan and I had a very passionate, romantic,
01:46 long distance relationship filled with breakups
01:51 and coming together and breakups and coming together.
01:54 And it was always so incredibly passionate.
01:57 There's not many people, you know, people say,
01:59 oh, I could never spend that much time with my mate.
02:02 And they never got tired of each other.
02:04 They were like this.
02:05 Alan is very private, doesn't want to be a public person.
02:09 My mother loved being in the public
02:11 and so he protected her.
02:12 You know, my mother had an amazing talent
02:15 for being 100% present with whomever she was with.
02:20 Suzanne's son, Bruce Summers Jr.,
02:22 spoke with E.T. after her death,
02:24 opening up about the hardest days of her cancer battle
02:27 and her final moments of life.
02:30 She's had cancer all her life.
02:32 And then the big one came in this decade as well.
02:37 And she fought and fought and fought
02:41 and used every possible kind of healthcare,
02:46 allopathic, conventional, alternative and integrative.
02:52 Whatever was right.
02:54 And it looked like she was gonna make it.
02:56 And then it just overwhelmed her.
02:58 The overwhelming outpouring of love from everyone
03:02 is heartfelt, but it's a whole additional
03:08 wave of emotion as well.
03:10 I've held on to who I am and what I believe in.
03:13 When I think about what happened,
03:16 I lose it and then I regain it.
03:21 And it's probably gonna be that way for a while
03:23 until things settle down.
03:26 I lost half of me.
03:28 We were one.
03:29 I lost half of me like that.
03:31 Two piece in a pod.
03:33 And that life is over now.
03:38 And while life goes on for Alan and Bruce,
03:40 they still took the time to celebrate Suzanne
03:43 on what would have been her 77th birthday.
03:46 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
03:51 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
03:55 This is the cake that we had made for my mother.
03:58 Suzanne loved cake.
04:00 Loved cake.
04:01 We would go to weddings and we'd get there and I'd say,
04:04 "How well do you know these people?"
04:05 'Cause I'd never heard of them.
04:06 She said, "I've only met them once."
04:08 And I'd say, "She was there for the cake."
04:10 I'm not kidding.
04:11 (upbeat music)
04:14 (upbeat music)
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