Johnny Carson's Son Died — He Did the Show Anyway and America Watched Him Break

Описание: Johnny Carson's Son Died — He Did the Show Anyway and America Watched Him Break


On June 21, 1991, Johnny Carson received the phone call every parent dreads. His son Ricky, twenty-seven years old, had been found dead in his car on a rural road in California. The details were unclear. An accident. Possibly something else. But the result was the same: Johnny's youngest son was gone. And Johnny, who had spent thirty years hiding his emotions behind jokes and that famous smile, had to figure out how to function. How to breathe. How to exist in a world where his child didn't. Three days later, Johnny Carson walked onto the stage of The Tonight Show. The audience applauded. Ed McMahon said "Heeeere's Johnny!" And Johnny smiled. Did his monologue. Interviewed guests. Made America laugh. And nobody watching knew that behind that smile was a father whose heart had just been shattered. This is the story of the night Johnny Carson had to choose between grieving his son and doing his job. And how that choice haunted him for the rest of his life.

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