After opening up to the battle of her late husband, John, with pancreatic cancer Golden single, Joan Vasus The “alignment stars” felt an ideal opportunity to honor it.

“My family and I were talking about how to honor John and we were never able to reach anything correctly poetry – planting a tree or putting the name on a seat, all those things that people do to make their memory more ever, none of them were right for John,” US weekly During an exclusive interview. And after that, when Nakan approached me and said, “We heard your story in the show, and we would like to talk to us about joining our case, that was perfect because it was exactly what John wanted. John was a very generous, very generous and very elegant person.

Joan will join it Four adult childrenDescendants, friends from all parts of them to strangers who joined them “it is just a twisting” in Pancan Purplestride In Washington, DC, on Saturday, April 26. I told Joan we That her fiancé, Chock ChappleIt will not be in the attendance.

“He was planning to come, but I gave him a break. He still had a job while he was doing something in Los Angeles this week, making it difficult for him to take the entire week,” she said, explaining that Choc, 61, will be beside her if she asked him to.

Joan added that Chuck was “amazing” about her efforts to maintain John’s legacy alive. (John died in 2021 at the age of 59 after the fighting of pancreatic cancer for about a year. Joan and thorns were involved In the conclusion of November 2024 from Golden Bachelor))

“He is an incredible person who is very understood and wants me to do everything I need to do.” we From chock. “He really realizes my children. This is a big thing that happened in their lives, and John’s legacy is still important to us and will always remain. He is very nice. And you know he lost someone. He was associated with this. He was working for great years – he did not excel.

Joan went to the extent that they called “perfect Chock”, adding: “I never had ever on the influence of our relationship. I spend a lot of time to do this or talk about it a lot. It is amazing about it.”

ABC star acknowledged that the meeting Golden Bachelor Twosome allowed to go deep.

“In the natural dating world, you have no time limit, so you don’t have to lead,” so my wife died, I am divorced “or anything else. You do not have to go with these heavy things, but it is certain that it should be part of the conversation because the person was not good in this part of your life – I could not be with someone not, like accepting this part of my life.” “I was married to John for 32 years. I was with him for a longer period. He is my father’s father, so he would always be a big part of my life. But this was part of here. It was a stop point, and I needed to go forward and live my life, which he wanted.

Joan hopes that her relationship with Chock will be long as her 32 -year marriage to John.

“I want to live life and want to love again. I liked to be married and I had a great marriage and so I think it makes me want to do it again. Some people make them don’t want to do it again, making me want to do it again.” “It will only be different.”

Although Chock will not be with Joan at Walk Walk on Saturday, she is sure that she will feel the presence of John.

“I will be very surprised if I don’t do it,” she said, adding that her children also help her feel near John. As for her three grandchildren, Joan noted that “two of them are very young”, but her grandson is definitely flourishing “he knows” about “fixed organic pollutants” as the only grandson who got an interview John.

She said: “We are talking about it – we do not want John’s memory. Their parents are because of this existing man.”

In addition to walking, Joan wants to make sure that people are aware of the risk of pancreatic cancer.

“Unless you get magnetic resonance imaging or pet examination, there is no way to detect it. There is no blood test. It is not easy to do to see if you have. So it is not discovered for a long time so that the time is diagnosed, it is very far away, and then, the treatment options are not great.” The sad thing is that there is not much research that is being done. First of all, funding decreased. [The pharma companies] None of them wants to study her or finance her research because they have not achieved much success. “

As a result, donations are very important.

“I am so fortunate that I should be so much that I am following talking about it and why I participate. He maintains his memory alive. There are many people who suffer from this cancer or may develop this cancer. It is on the right path to be the second main cause of cancer -related deaths in the United States, so this may be a real part of people’s lives.” “I do not think that pancreatic cancer is like that in the foreground – think about other cancers, breast cancer and colon cancer as more prevalent. This moves on this range and this is frightening.”

Joan concluded with a message from her children.

They said, “My mom, if each of your followers give one dollar, you will make like $ 200,000. I like it if each one of my followers gave $ 1. Ask to donate this organization, Pancan.org. It is really important. “

Purplestride will be held at the country level in approximately 60 society on April 26, 2025, which brings together survivors, supporters, celebrities and special guests to collect awareness and critical money for pancreatic cancer – one of the most bloody diseases in the world.