Gene Wilder's marriage to Gilda Radner was a sham
The world mourned with Gene Wilder when his wife Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer in 1989 but his motivation for staying with her through the tragic ordeal wasn't love -it was guilt says the book Gene Wilder: Funny and Sad written by Brian Scott Mednick. Mednick claims the actor was extremely unhappy in his marriage.