Joan Vassos to honor recent husband, shares chock response

After opening for her late husband John’s battle with pancreas cancer The Golden Bachelorette, Joan Vassos Feel “the aligned stars” with the perfect opportunity to honor him.

“My family and I had been talking about how to honor John and we could never think of anything that felt right – planting a tree or putting the name on a bench, all those things that people do to make their memory be more eternal, none of them seemed right to John,” said Joan, 62, in saying to Joan, 62, 62 Weekly US During a unique interview. “And then when Pancan came to me and said, ‘We heard your story on the show and we would love to talk to us about joining our case, it was perfect because that’s exactly what John had wanted. John was a very generous person and giving and giving and very humanitarian and very humanitarian. And I thought, he would have given it to this case and wanted us to go through.”

Joan will join her Four adult childrenGrandkids, friends of all parts and even strangers who joined her “it’s just a spit” PANCAN PURPLEST PURPLEST WALK In Washington DC, Saturday, April 26. Joan told Us that his fiancé, Chapple Chockwill not be present.

“He planned to come, but I gave him the break. He still has a job and does something in La this week that makes it a little difficult for him to take the whole week away,” he said, making it clear that Chock, 61, would be by her side if he asked him to do so.

Joan added that Chock had been “amazing” for her efforts to keep John’s legacy alive. (John died in 2021 at the age of 59 after battling pancreatic cancer for almost a year. Joan and Chock engaged At the end of November 2024 of The gold bachelorette.)

“He is an amazing person and is so intelligent and wants me to do whatever I need to do,” Gushed Joan Us O chock. “He is really aware of my children. This is a big thing that happened in their lives and John’s legacy is still very important to us and always will be. He is so kind about it.

Joan went as far as Chock’s call was “perfect,” adding, “I never have to worry about our relationship. I spend too much time doing this or talking too much about it. It’s amazing about it.”

ABC Star acknowledged that meeting was chock on The gold bachelorette Have allowed the deos to go deep quickly.

“In the usual dating world, you don’t have a time limit, so you don’t have to lead with, ‘This is how my spouse died or I am divorced’ or whatever. You don’t have to go with that heavy things, but it certainly needs to be part of the conversation because if a person is not good with that part of your life – I couldn’t have been with a person who did not, like one.” I was with him for even longer. He is the father of my children, so he will always be a big part of my life. But that was a part over here. It had a stop spot and I need to move on and live my life and this is what he wanted. And he told me that he was right before he died, which gave me. It actually took me a little time to accept that. But then I realize I have another whole life to live. “

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

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

Although Chock will not be with Joan on the walk on Saturday, she is confident that she will feel John’s presence.

“I would be so surprised if I wasn’t,” she said, adding that her children also help her feel close to John. In terms of her three grandchildren, Joan noted that “two of them are too young” but her grandson Boomer “definitely knows” about his “pops” as the only Grandkid who arrived at a meeting with John.

“We’re talking about it – we don’t want John’s memory to disappear. Their parents are who they are because of this man who existed,” he said.

As well as the walk, Joan wants to make people aware of the risk of pancreas cancer.

“Unless you get an MRI or a pet scan, there is no way to find it. There is no blood test. It’s not easy to do to find out if you have it. So it goes so undetected so long that people are diagnosed by the time they are quite distant and then the cancer and then the treatment options are not great,” he said. “And the sad thing is that there is little research being done on it. First of all, the funding has reduced. (The pharma companies) none want to study or fund research for it because they have not had much success.”

As a result, donations are very important.

“I’m so lucky to have had to be in this situation until I still talk about it and why I’m taking part. It keeps his memory alive. There are so many people out there who have this cancer or could get this cancer. It’s on track to be the second major cause of cancer -related deaths in the United States, so this could be a real part of people’s lives,” he said. “And I don’t think pancreatic cancer is like that at the forefront – you think of other cancers, breast cancer, colon cancer like the more common ones. This moves its way up at that scale and that’s scary.”

Joan finished with a message from her children.

“They said, ‘Mum, if all of your followers gave $ 1, you would make like $ 200,000. I would love it if all my followers gave $ 1” said Joan. “I know everyone is drawn to a million references, asking you to give things to things, but this is my turn. I ask to give this organization, pancan.org. It is very important. “

Purple will take place across the country in nearly 60 communities on April 26, 2025, bringing survivors, fans, celebrities, and special guests together to raise awareness and critical funds for pancreatic cancer – one of the world’s most deadly diseases.