
Larry King’s wife, Shawn King, is recovering after a drug overdose last month in Utah:
Emergency medical workers were called to Shawn King’s home in Provo on May 28. Her father dialed 911 after finding the 50-year-old woman in her bed, breathing but not responding when he tried to wake her.
He told dispatchers that he thought she may have taken too much medication for anxiety or depression.
Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce in April, but Larry King released a statement Wednesday saying their marriage is still together.
King spokesman Howard Rubenstein says Shawn King is in good shape and enjoying her life.
Indeed. It sounds like her life is all roses and sunshine.
From what I gather, Shawn King doesn’t take “depression medication” because of her stressful marriage meltdown to Larry a few months back, but rather, she takes “depression medication” because her marriage is back on with Larry King. Just the shock of knowing she had a chance to walk away from being married to something you have to dust every day, but didn’t, is enough to make anyone go all Jimi Hendrix with the medication.
This is your proof positive that money does NOT buy you happiness. Shawn King probably thought she had it made the day Larry laid his glaucoma-laded eyes on her. Sure, at first I’m sure she was impressed by his smokers voice, the little puddles of drool that formed in the corners of his mouth when he spoke, and the skin that would fall off his forehead when he walked, but a few years later those things weren’t cute any more, they were disgusting.
Shawn probably thought Larry had a few years left in him before he expired, and then she could waddle up to the money buffet and cash in. But Larry is doing his best impression of Methuselah and is still kicking around. One day, Shawn woke up, to urine stained sheets no doubt, and realized she had just wasted over a decade of her life servicing a dinosaur and listening to his boring, stupid stories about the time he interviewed Joan Rivers and other assorted craptacious crappy crap.
So she reached for the pain medication – probably Flintstones Chewables if I’m reading this slab of stupid correctly – and swallowed three Wilma’s, four Bamm Bamm’s, and a handful of Fred’s. The next thing you know, her father is standing over top of her trying to wake her up, the medics are pumping her stomach and Larry is pissing into a fern.
The rest is history, but the fact remains – idiot is still married to someone that makes Helen Thomas palatable.