New details have surfaced about the final hours ofBob Saget’s life.
Ponte Vedra Concert Hall staffer Rosalie Cocci, who runs errands for talent and staff at the theater, detailed her interactions with Saget at his finalstand-up seton Jan. 8., just hours before he was found dead, in a phone interview with Orange County police.
“I did hear him say, ‘I don’t feel good, but I’m ready to do the show. This is what I do this for.’ He kinda seemed like he was talking himself up,” Cocci said of Saget, who tested positive for COVID weeks before his death and was also positive at the time of his autopsy.
“He stated himself that… it was taking his body a long time to get over [COVID],” she shared. “He said that his hearing had been off and that was the case that night. He was asking the sound guys to turn everything up.”
“He said he had been sick the night before, he said he had a sore throat, that he was happy he had lozenges for the stage,” Cocci continued, later adding, “Mr. Saget’s soundcheck lasted a while.”
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As part of Cocci’s job, she was required to purchase whatever food or beverage items Saget wanted. However, in the audio, she claimed his rider list got “cut-down in half” on the night of his performance.
“All there was on there was drinks. He wanted Redbull, Diet Coke and regular Coke and that was it,” she recalled, adding that she never saw Saget “ingest” anything all evening, “not even water on stage.”
Cocci told police that, despite what Saget shared, the beloved comedian generally “seemed okay” and that she found the news of his death to be unexpected.
“He wasn’t sweating, he didn’t miss a beat, nothing slurred,” she in the police interview of Saget’s stand-up routine. “He seemed okay. He really did and it was very surprising the next day… He came out very energetic, and in the half-an-hour, I saw him, he was very much entertaining the crowd.”
A representative for Saget and his family did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Sagetdied on Jan. 9after his body was found in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida. He waslaid to restfive days later.
Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany, MD later revealed in a toxicology analysis thatSaget’s death was “the result of blunt head trauma,” ruling the manner of his passing an accident not tied to any illicit drugs or toxins. Additionally,the comedian’s autopsyreport indicated he had severe fractures to the back of his head and around his eyes when he died.
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Dr. Stephany cited “a fall onto a carpeted floor” as an example of something that could cause such injury, though there were no signs of blood on the bedsheets or bedspread, according to the report.
Bob Saget.James Brickwood/getty
Though Dr. Stephany was unable to “state definitively” when Saget’s injury occurred, he said he “believed it was probably within hours of his death, possibly within a day or two, depending on several medical factors.”
In the time since theFull Housestar’s death, his wife, Kelly Rizzo, and his three daughters — Aubrey,Lara, and Jennifer — weregranted a permanent injunctionto block the release of certain documents tied to the actor’s death.
The other photos taken during the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation were blocked from the public under the ruling of the injunction. Those photos showed Saget after his death and included autopsy images.
source: people.com
