The twins who were born two years earlier were named Robert and Faith. “And when I say two years before I was born, I mean two years to the day: May 17, 1954. “Two years before I was born, my mom had given birth to full-term healthy twins,” Saget wrote in his book. The actor’s parents, Benjamin and Rosalyn “Dolly,” dealt with their fair share of heartbreaking tragedies, too. “And then years later, Gay lost her life at the age of forty-seven to the disease scleroderma.” Saget wrote about his family, seen here in 2002, in his 2014 memoir. “Andi (short for Andrea) died at age thirty-four of a brain aneurysm,” he wrote. Saget’s two sisters, Andi and Gay, also died young. “All these men were my childhood heroes,” the “Full House” alum wrote.
Saget lost three of his uncles to heart attacks when he was only 8, 9 and 15.
“I’ve always had a fascination with death, being surrounded by so much of it growing up,” he wrote in his 2014 memoir, “ Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian.” The beloved comedian, who was found dead in his Florida hotel room Sunday, experienced a tremendous amount of loss during his 65 years on Earth. ‘Unusually hilarious’: Comedy legends pay tribute to iconic funnyman Gilbert Gottfriedīob Saget’s sense of humor and outlook on life was shaped by his dark family history.
