E!’s new documentary series Dirty Rotten Scandals is taking a look at legendary daytime host Bob Barker during a particularly difficult point in his life.
Colleagues who worked with Barker on The Price is Right revealed Barker struggled after his wife Dorothy Jo Barker passed away from lung cancer in 1981 at the age of 57.
“They went to Hawaii in August and she was diagnosed with lung cancer and died two months later,” The Price is Right producer Barbara Hunter said in the documentary, per People.
Dorothy Jo was his “biggest cheerleader,” according to those interviewed on the docuseries. The couple had been married for almost 40 years before her sudden death.
Hunter added, “Bob really went into a funk after that. He was ready to take his own life. That’s what he shared with me.”
Later, Holly Hallstrom, a model on The Price is
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