Difficult Journey
Then Trebek described an extremely trying year. “There were moments of great pain,” he remarked. Moments when basic physiological processes stopped working and major bouts of severe sadness made me wonder if it was really worth fighting.”
A Betrayal To Jean
When discussing his despair, Trebek mentioned that during his cancer ordeal, he had always had someone else to think about. “I brushed [the sadness] aside very quickly, because that would have been a massive betrayal – a betrayal of my wife and soulmate, Jean, who has given her everything to help me survive,” he explained.