Bobby Sherman was once the face which set hearts pounding throughout America – a ’60s pin-up boy, whose posters covered a million teenage bedroom walls. It was like everybody had a secret crush on him.
But now it has emerged decades after his stardom and it is heartbreaking news from the person who knew him best.
Sherman’s wife has confirmed that the love singer and actor has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
The 1960’s were not just another decade for Bobby Sherman, when he was a pop sensation but the teen idol. With his brilliant smile, deep eyes, and gold-certified tunes such as “Little Woman” and “Easy Come, Easy Go”, Sherman won the hearts of a whole generation. He wasn’t just face on the radio, he was on television screens on The Partridge Family and Shindig! , gracing the magazine covers and the inside of bedroom walls. People didn’t just like him — they loved him.
However, decades after his heyday; fans are broken hearted to hear that their once swooned star is in the toughest battle that he ever had to fight.
The heartbreaking news was first shared by Bobby’s wife, Brigitte Poublon, on a tear-filled Facebook post on March 25: the 81-year-old singer and actor has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Although at that time she didn’t reveal it, there were streams of sorrow and gratitude in her words.
As it weighs heavy in our heart, we do share that Bobby was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer,” she wrote. “During this difficult time, we humbly request for your understanding and respect for privacy”.
Bobby Sherman type of cancer
In April, Brigitte announced her husband’s exact diagnosis: kidney cancer, unfortunately, she sadly revealed has ”spread everywhere”.
In a interview with Fox News Digital, Brigitte didn’t candy-coat the bleak reality. She exposed that the once un-stop-able pop icon is now terminally ill and “at home with special care”.
“He was doing crossword games with me during the last few days,” she said. And then all of the sudden Saturday, he turned around and…he’s just sleeping more and his body’s not working anymore. It’s not. Everything’s shutting down.”
81-year-old Sherman had retired last year, although he dealt with fans by signing autographs. Now even that is almost impossible.
“But now he can barely sign his name,” Brigitte said, although he wants “to be left in peace” and spend his final days in the company of his family and their five favorite dogs.
And at one point, particularly heart-breaking, she revealed his last desire from the hospital bed. “His dying words from hospital last night were, ‘Brig, I just want to go home’.”
Support from John Stamos
The outpouring of love by fans has been too much, Brigitte said. “A lot of them have been very good.” That support has been extended to the couple’s close friends as well, and extending as far as to Full House star John Stamos, who has been present by their side through emotions from afar.
The actor and the sons became connected for the first time when Stamos joined the Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children Foundation as an ambassador, and the friendship grew from there. ‘And we’ve been best friends ever [since]’ Brigitte said.
While Stamos wanted to see the patient, Brigitte talked to him softly about not seeing Bobby in this condition. “I told him, I don’t suggest that he come into the room that Bobby’s at right now,” she said. Rather than this, the actor delivered a heartfelt video message to cheer his friend up.
Beyond the music and fame, Bobby Sherman lived his life in service – and it was not just through his job as a paramedic and working as a reserve officer with the LAPD. He, together with Brigitte formed the Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation which was a project based on compassion, and intended to assist the children of Ghana.
Brigitte said “It was always our dream to do something for a Third World country”.
We opened up five and a half acres. We have a massive village of music with soup kitchens. We are serving more than 375 meals a day. we are going to increase that to 500. We have classrooms and computers, and we have a music room and pavilions. We take them to field trips, we pay them in colleges.”
Married her idol crush
Even though Bobby never made it to Africa, the effects of his heart and vision are indisputable. “That is our labor of love,” said Brigitte. Bobby has never managed to do it, make it, go to Africa. I was constantly fearing that something was rather sensitive at the time.”
Their story as a couple started way before the diagnosis, and for Brigitte, it was the fulfillment of a dream. “I got to I meet my teen idol crush!” she said, laughing.
She even remembers when she first saw him in the People Mag standing next to a friend. “And I saw, I thought, ‘You know what? He seems to be a great person.’
Shermana and Brigitte Poublon got married on July 18th, 2010 in Las Vegas.
Even though Bobby Sherman’s voice is no longer heard in concert halls, his influence resounds in the lives of those he’s touched – as an entertainer and a statesman. And now with this hard chapter, fans all over the world are sending love and strength and prayers to the man who once brought them so much joy. Keep struggling, Bobby – we are thinking of you!
