![]() ![]() ![]() Kathryn, Rush's fourth wife, also told listeners how the pair came up with the idea of inviting Elton John to sing at their 2010 wedding in Palm Beach, when the couple was staying a floor below the singer at the same hotel in Hawaii a year prior to the nuptials. "That's something that was not really highly told over the years, or really publicized or written about, but it certainly should be part of his legacy: He's one of the most generous people and celebrities that you could ever find," she said. Like friends of theirs in Palm Beach, Florida, Kathryn insisted that Rush was different off the air. But we were very, very close from the early, early days of that meeting." Rush and I became friends, for many years, before we actually got married. "And from that moment on," she continued, "I knew that everything that you read and hear is not necessarily accurate. "He walked in, he was extraordinarily humble and kind, and I thought to myself - this isn't quite the person that I thought was going to be arriving." "I thought, I've heard a lot about him, but I will give it a shot anyway," she said Monday. Rewind back to that celebrity golf tournament and Kathryn decided to invite Rush. Over the years, he also apologized for some of these remarks but steadfastly stood by others, and his audience remained loyal to his point of view on the issues of the day. "Believe it or not, I put him down on maybe B or C, just based on what I thought I knew of him," she said on the show.īy then, Rush was one of the most popular and most divisive right-wing personalities in the country - both adored and widely loathed.Ī pioneering say-anything radio host, he made numerous inflammatory comments over the years: mocking former President Barack Obama as "Barack the Magic Negro" relishing the deaths of AIDS victims and savaging women's activism, including calling a college student advocating for contraception a "slut." At the time, she was running a foundation South African golfer Gary Player and organizing a celebrity golf tournament Rush was brought up as a possible A-lister. Returning this week, Kathryn shared that prior to meeting him in the early 2000s, she was not a Rush fan. She was the one who announced Rush's death last week, telling listeners on his show that her "wonderful husband" was "larger than life." ![]() He never stopped working, from the moment that he got home after the show he may give himself maybe 15 minutes or an hour of rest time, and he was back at it," Kathryn said. "Rush was an incredible creature of habit. "It has been a very difficult time," she said. Drew Angerer/Getty Kathryn and Rush Limbaugh ![]()
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