‘She was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma at the age of 44.’ The star of Full House was discovered deceased in an…īob Saget talked about his mentor and how his approach has changed over time… Saget, who became a champion for finding a therapy for scleroderma, said in a 2019 interview with the NIH Magazine: ‘My sister, Gay Saget, was a school teacher near Philadelphia.’īob Saget has died at the age of 65. Gay had to move back in with her parents before she died because she required so much care.
He wrote that performing reminded him of “when I was 26,” and that he was “finding my new voice and loved every minute of it.” Saget’s final tweets and Instagram posts were posted late Saturday night after his final performance in Jacksonville, Florida. He earlier posted a photo of the two of them together. Andrea had a cerebral aneurism, and Gay had an autoimmune illness. Saget’s sisters, Gay and Andrea, both died while they were young adults, resulting in a tragic family history. Gay died of an autoimmune illness at the age of 47 in 1994. Gay, Saget’s older sister, is depicted with him and their mother Dolly in the photo above. Gay, his second older sister, died nine years later at the age of 47, after a three-year battle with the autoimmune disease scleroderma. Andrea Saget, Saget’s older sister, died in 1985 at the age of 35 from a brain aneurism.
