Amy Yasbeck sobbed through much of her testimony as she told jurors about husband John Ritter's last moments before he was wheeled into surgery for what they thought was a heart attack, but what turned out to be a shredded aorta. The AP notes that Yasbeck's words were the final testimony heard for the plaintiff's side in the $67 mil wrongful-death suit Ritter's family filed against Dr. Joseph Lee and radiologist Dr. Matthew Lotysch. Dr. Lee was the physician at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center who told the family that Ritter was in the middle of a heart attack and as such needed an angiogram. Dr. Lotysch had performed a body scan on the actor two years prior to his death and concluded that his aorta was normal. Along with Yasbeck, Ritter's first wife of 19 years, Nancy, also testified. Ritter had told her his body scan had gone well, but she then offered, "Maybe he was trying to protect me."Yasbeck's testimony concluded with her account of the unthinkable moment of having to tel...
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Eight months after John Ritter's death, his spunky wife, Amy Yasbeck, resumed her acting career by shooting the pilot for Fox's Life on a Stick. The family sitcom — debuting March 23 at 9:30 pm/ET — features her as the sexy stepmom of a 19-year-old slacker who prefers to live at home and cook up corn dogs at the mall instead of going off to college. You can see the first few minutes of the show before it airs, in this exclusive TVGuide.com. video clip. And for Yasbeck's touching and often funny thoughts on moving on with life after loss, read on...
TVGuide.com: Your hair looks fabulous in the first episode. I'm a big fan of redheads.Amy Yasbeck: [Laughs] Thank you. You are? It's funny, I ran into Marilu Henner la
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