A Medical Crisis & More! Six Secrets Gene Wilder Took To The Grave
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Gene Wilder, the actor most known for lead roles in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein has died. Find out what secrets he took to the grave!
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Bizarre Childhood: As a child Wilder was warned never to make his mother angry in case she suffered a fatal heart attack, he claimed. "Don't ever get angry at your mother. It might kill her," Wilder said a doctor told him at age 8.
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Beat Up For His Religion: Wilder was sent to a military academy in Hollywood as a child. “I only stayed there a year. I got beat up every day because I was the only Jew in the school," he claimed. "My mother was shocked when she saw the black and blue marks on my body and she kept me at home after that."
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Religion: At age 13, Wilder became obsessed with praying out loud. He said, "It was a bizarre compulsion, probably because of all the stress and sadness I went through at home."
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God Complex: "He literally was knocked to the ground while in high school one day, completely overcome by this gripping obsession to talk to God," a publishing insider once told The ENQUIRER. When the compulsion struck without warning, said the source, "He actually felt he had to speak to God, wherever he was, and he had to do it out loud and on his knees. Wilder felt crazy and out of control. And he was."
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Staying Chaste: Wilder remained a virgin until he was 21 and didn't have sex until one month after his mother's death. "I grew up thinking it was wrong to feel pleasure or happiness because my mother was suffering every single day," he said. "I felt guilty and sad all the time. I think that's why I turned to comedy later."
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Gilda Radner's Death: Wilder fell in love with the SNL star while working together on the Sidney Poitier film Hanky Panky. They were married in 1984 and Radner wanted badly to be a mother. Another friend added, "Gilda thought her life was just beginning." Then Radner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Wilder stayed at her side, sometimes sleeping on the couch in the room, but Radner died in May 1989.
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gene-wilder-death-secrets-private-past
Gene Wilder, the actor most known for lead roles in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein has died. Find out what secrets he took to the grave!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Gene Wilder
Bizarre Childhood: As a child Wilder was warned never to make his mother angry in case she suffered a fatal heart attack, he claimed. "Don't ever get angry at your mother. It might kill her," Wilder said a doctor told him at age 8.
Photo credit: WENN
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Beat Up For His Religion: Wilder was sent to a military academy in Hollywood as a child. “I only stayed there a year. I got beat up every day because I was the only Jew in the school," he claimed. "My mother was shocked when she saw the black and blue marks on my body and she kept me at home after that."
Photo credit: WENN
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Religion: At age 13, Wilder became obsessed with praying out loud. He said, "It was a bizarre compulsion, probably because of all the stress and sadness I went through at home."
Photo credit: WENN
Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother
God Complex: "He literally was knocked to the ground while in high school one day, completely overcome by this gripping obsession to talk to God," a publishing insider once told The ENQUIRER. When the compulsion struck without warning, said the source, "He actually felt he had to speak to God, wherever he was, and he had to do it out loud and on his knees. Wilder felt crazy and out of control. And he was."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Gene Wilder
Staying Chaste: Wilder remained a virgin until he was 21 and didn't have sex until one month after his mother's death. "I grew up thinking it was wrong to feel pleasure or happiness because my mother was suffering every single day," he said. "I felt guilty and sad all the time. I think that's why I turned to comedy later."
Photo credit: WENN
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Gilda Radner's Death: Wilder fell in love with the SNL star while working together on the Sidney Poitier film Hanky Panky. They were married in 1984 and Radner wanted badly to be a mother. Another friend added, "Gilda thought her life was just beginning." Then Radner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Wilder stayed at her side, sometimes sleeping on the couch in the room, but Radner died in May 1989.
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