LARRY KING’S family and friends are “ecstatic” the CNN legend is finally divorcing his wife, Shawn, after 22 turbulent years of marriage.
After having a cancerous lump removed from his lung and enduring heart surgery, the 85-year-old “nearly died — and he realized she never really cared about him,” an insider says.
As GLOBE reported, the TV talker almost ditched the leggy blonde, 59, in 2010 after she had an affair with their sons’ baseball coach. But the couple — parents to Cannon, 19, and Chance, 20 — reconciled. Then six years later, Shawn was caught exchanging racy texts with yet another lover!
But now that Larry’s called it quits, the insider says, “Everyone is ecstatic — absolutely over the moon. We just hope he’s alive for the divorce to…
