Rita Wilson reveals two things she requested from Tom Hanks if she dies first during talk show visit
Rita Wilson revealed what two things she requested from husband Tom Hanks if she dies before him during a pre-recorded visit Tuesday on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
The 63-year-old actress and singer opened up to Kelly, 37, while discussing her battle with breast cancer that she announced in April 2015.
Rita said she had ‘very serious discussions’ with Tom, 63, about how she wanted him and their two sons Chet, 29, and Truman, 24, to handle her death.
Two things: Rita Wilson revealed the two things she requested of husband Tom Hanks if she died before him during a pre-recorded visit to The Kelly Clarkson Show that aired on Tuesday
‘I said to him, ”Look, if something happens and I should go before you then I just want you to know that there’s a couple of things that I want. One is that I want you to be super sad for a really long time,’ Rita said as the audience and Kelly laughed.
‘The second thing was that I wanted a party. I wanted to have a celebration and I wanted to have a lot of singing and dancing and people telling stories and to feel like that was being celebrated,’ she added.
Their conversation led to the song Throw Me A Party that was featured on Rita’s fourth studio album Halfway To Home released in March 2019.
Rita said she had the title and wrote the song with Liz Rose and Sugarland’s Kristian Bush. She also performed Throw Me A Party on the talk show that was recorded before she and Tom tested positive for coronavirus.
Coronavirus survivors: Tom and Rita, shown in February in Hollywood, recently returned to Los Angeles after being quarantined in Australia last month after testing positive for coronavirus
The Los Angeles native underwent a double mastectomy a month after her diagnosis and in December 2015 announced that she was ‘100 percent healthy’.
‘In some ways, cancer was a blessing,’ Rita told Kelly. ‘It really taught me to live every moment to the fullest and every moment as if it were your last.’
‘We don’t know what tomorrow brings. We have to be able to live, and go out today going, ”Wow, OK. I did it. I did everything that I wanted to do. I lived the life that I wanted to live today”,’ she added.
Cancer survivor: Rita opened up while talking to Kelly about her 2015 battle with breast cancer
The host: Kelly welcomed Rita onto her new talk show that suspended production in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic
Rita and Tom both tested positive for COVID-19 last month in Australia, where he was filming a biopic of Elvis Presley directed by Baz Lurhmann, 57
The couple went into quarantine in Australia for the duration of their illness and have since returned to Los Angeles.
Rita has teamed up with Naughty By Nature for a remix of their 1993 hit Hip Hop Hooray that will serve as a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief.
New remix: Rita has teamed up with Naughty By Nature for a remix of their 1993 hit Hip Hop Hooray that will serve as a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief
She uploaded an Instagram selfie video while in quarantine in which she rapped along to the entire song.
Rita later revealed that she learned the song for her role in the film Boy Genius.
The new single will raise money for the MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund to help those in the music industry who have lost work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Relief fund: The new single will raise money for the MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund to help those in the music industry who have lost work due to the coronavirus pandemic
Rita also will host the Kenny Rogers: Benefit for MusiCares on Wednesday on CMT.
The special will honor Rogers who died at age 81 on March 20 while also serving as a benefit concert for the MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.
The Kelly Clarkson show suspended production in mid-March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Family picture: Samantha Bryant, Colin Hanks, Rita, Tom, Elizabeth Ann Hanks, Chet Hanks, and Truman Theodore Hanks are shown in January in Beverly Hills, California