You’ve heard about Kirstie Alley passing away. Not a lot of people realize that she was from just down the road from us in Kansas. She grew up in Wichita and then went to college at K-State. She eventually dropped out and moved to California thinking that she was going to go into interior decorating. But, as we know, she ended up acting instead. She kind of went wild with the parties and drugs, but cleaned up her act after her parents were in a car accident that killed her mother. She hitched he wagon to Scientology which led to her getting into acting and that first role in “Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan”.
Arguably one of the best movies of all time. The scene where Spock died was probably the first time I ever cried because of a movie.
Anyway, everyone is saying that she died after a short fight with cancer. She had colon cancer. She thought she was having back issues, pain and such. That’s when they discovered the cancer and it was extremely advanced. She was 71.