{"id":14342,"date":"2026-03-18T02:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:48:41","slug":"after-battling-parkinsons-for-so-many-years-the-beloved-star-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14342","title":{"rendered":"After battling Parkinson\u2019s for so many years, the beloved star passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Lewis built a career out of raw honesty, turning anxiety and vulnerability into comedy that made people feel less alone. In his final years, he spoke openly about living with Parkinson\u2019s disease and chose to step away from stand-up on his own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Offstage, his greatest stability came from his wife, Joyce Lapinsky, whom he married in 2005 after meeting years earlier. Tributes from friends like Larry David and Bette Midler highlight the same truth\u2014he didn\u2019t just make people laugh; he made them feel understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lewis built a career out of raw honesty, turning anxiety and vulnerability into comedy that made people feel less alone. In his final years, he spoke openly about living with Parkinson\u2019s disease and chose to step away from stand-up on his own terms. Offstage, his greatest stability came from his wife, Joyce Lapinsky, whom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}