'No one should have to suffer as my sister Gay did. 'I wanted to do something about it - to share our family's story with others and let them know that they aren't alone in this battle,' the actor wrote for Today. 'One year later, Gay lost her life to it.'Īs he said in his autobiography, he struggled with losing 'two of the most important women in my life.' But he coped with his grief by trying to help other women suffering with scleroderma by fundraising for the foundation. The 65-year-old comedian was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando. 'So, just three years after I found out what 'scleroderma' was, my sister was sitting in the audience at the benefit, now actually diagnosed with this orphan disease,' he revealed in an essay for Today. We are devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob Saget passed away today, the family of the Full House star said in a statement shortly after the news of Bob’s death on Sunday (Jan. The comic had coincidentally performed at a benefit for the Scleroderma Research Foundation years before, alongside comics like Robin Williams, Ellen Degeneres, and Rosie O'Donnell. According to The Mayo Clinic, scleroderma is a chronic condition that primarily harms the skin but can also gradually affect internal organs.
