CNN — Richard Cohen, a journalist who was married to former “The View” co-host Meredith Vieira for 38 years, has died after living with multiple sclerosis for decades, it was announced Tuesday on “Today.”
He was 76.
Cohen passed away on Christmas Eve and “Today’ co-host Hoda Kotb said that he was “surrounded by his family and love.”
Cohen told Yahoo Life in 2019 that both his father and his father’s mother both had multiple sclerosis. He himself was diagnosed at the age of 25, he said.
“I dropped a coffeepot for no reason. I fell off a curb for no reason. I noticed a little numbness in my leg,” he said at the time. “It hit my eyesight fairly quickly, but other than that, I was very active physically and I thought I was really beating it. I was living in denial.”
He had been living with the condition for a decade when he first met Vieira, and he said he told her about his diagnosis soon after they started dating.
“I sort of learned the hard way to get it on the table,” he said. “She didn’t blink” …
