Tucker Carlson told his fans that his family suffered a tragic loss this week, asking for privacy and promising to return to his popular show as soon as he is able.
In a heartfelt obituary, Carlson, 55, wrote that his father, Richard Warner Carlson, passed away on Monday at the age of 84. He had been struggling with an extended period of illness for six weeks while resting at his home in Boca Raton, Florida.
“He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet,” Carlson wrote on X.
According to the former Fox News star, the elder Carlson’s wife, Patricia, had just passed 16 months before he died.
“He mourned her every day,” the obituary reads.
Richard Carlson’s colorful life was covered at length by his son, who wrote that by the age of 17, he had been arrested for grand theft auto and thrown out of high school twice before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps. He worked as a sea cargo merchant and later as an investigative reporter, scaling back on his profession only after being badly injured in