Jean Smart WTTCW

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00:00You met your husband, Richard, when he was a guest star on Designing Women.

00:07Is it true that you told the other women on the show, hands off?

00:14No, no.

00:15I didn't say hands off.

00:16Everybody was all very friendly.

00:17I was very forward.

00:18I don't know why I wasn't usually like that.

00:21But we just kind of bonded instantly.

00:24We were never apart from that day.

00:26Three years ago, your husband, Richard, passed away from heart condition.

00:35How devastating was that for you and for your children?

00:42The worst, the worst.

00:46Because it was such a shock.

00:47It was so unexpected.

00:48I thought he had COVID or something.

00:52The places I took him to, to get him tested, didn't do anything except a COVID test.

01:03After he passed away, I went back to one of those places and I asked to see who was in

01:09charge that day.

01:10I said, let me ask you something.

01:12I said, if I brought my 71-year-old husband in here who was complaining of pain, we would

01:18take deep breaths.

01:19I said, what would you do for him?

01:21He said, well, the first thing we'd do is an EKG.

01:23I said, he died last week, why didn't you do that?

01:28Have you, I mean, obviously you're not over it, you're never over it, but have you found

01:32a way to put it into perspective and move on?

01:38Yes, just this year.

01:40It's been three years, which sometimes I cannot even believe.

01:47It's just, it's different than losing, I mean, losing a parent is different, I've lost

01:53a sibling, that's a different, whole different experience.

01:57Losing your mate of 35 years, I mean, literally half my life I lived with him, is just kind

02:09of indescribable.

02:11You go through this period of thinking it's just not real.

02:14It's just, this isn't real, you know, this just doesn't make any sense.