"It was an infection, it was sepsis," she told the outlet, which is likely to have been triggered by an infection after recovering from COVID-19.
"Well, he was finally ready to go, I will tell you that. You know, he never wanted to go but his sweet little body was just, it had just been hit so many times with so many things and once we heard the word COVID, all of our hearts just sunk," she continued. "But he beat it, you know, he beat it, but it did take its toll and then the unrelated infection finally is what took him, but boy, he was not gonna go down easily."
King also had two underlying health conditions that include acute hypoxic respiratory—a lack of oxygen in the blood—and kidney failure, which were both listed as secondary causes of death on the certificate obtained by People magazine.
The suspenders-sporting everyman was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in 1933 and conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. He held broadcast interviews with world leaders and ordinary Joes for a half-century.
King, who preferred to enter interviews unprepared, leaves behind three children and his wife, who he was in the middle of divorcing.
"The world knew Larry King as a great broadcaster and interviewer, but to us, he was 'dad,'" they continued. "He was an amazing father, and he was fiercely loyal to those lucky enough to call him a friend."