Robert Buchel, star of TLC’s My 600-lb Life, died Nov. 15 from a heart attack while filming the series at a hospital in Houston.
His death was announced by TLC after the Wednesday episode. Buchel was 41.
His fiancée, Kathryn Lemanski of Manchester, N.J., addressed viewers in an epilogue following Wednesday's episode.
“He told me, ‘I don’t think I’ll make it through the night. I love you and I always will,'” Lemanski said. “I lost my best friend and the person I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with.”
In a November Facebook posting after Buchel passed away, Lemanski said the two were going to "get married in Walt Disney World and have our own Disney Fairy Tale Wedding. We were going to start a family. We were going to grow old together."
Buchel, who was from Forked River, N.J., had lost more than 200 pounds — his top weight was 842 pounds — and he had undergone lymphedema removal surgery. Yet, a previously unacknowledged addiction to pain killers came back to haunt him, depression set in and he stopped exercising.
Source : usatoday
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