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Rita Wilson Reveals the Two Requests She Made to Tom Hanks After Cancer Diagnosis

Complex·Helen Storms·about 1 month ago
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When Rita Wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, she didn’t know if she was going to survive. The diagnosis led Wilson to have a very difficult and honest conversation with her husband of now 28 years, Tom Hanks. During that conversation, Wilson had two important requests for Hanks. During a conversation with Demi Moore at the  Sound of a Woman: Rita Wilson in Conversation  event on Tuesday, Wilson revealed what those two requests were. She first explained that if she were to pass away, she didn’t want her husband to move on too quickly. “I said to Tom, I’m like, ‘OK, if, if something happens and I go first, I just have two requests. And one is that you should be sad for a very, very long time,'” the 69-year-old said. The next request she had was that if cancer were to take her life, she didn’t want a traditional, sad funeral. Rather, she wanted her husband to throw her a “party.” “I want it to be a celebration of life,” Wilson recalled.…

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