Legendary TV anchor Tom Brokaw was spotted in Central Park this week, amid his lengthy battle with incurable blood cancer.
The 84-year-old retired journalist, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2013, was in a wheelchair near the park’s pond.
“He was in the wheelchair, with his wife and the home health aide, being wheeled around the pond. He and his wife looked so happy. It was sweet — sad, but sweet,” a source told NewsNation’s Paula Froelich.
Brokaw, who served as the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” for 22 years, was interviewed last year by Jane Pauley for his memoir “Never Give Up.”
During the interview, he said, “I’ve had a bad experience. … I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.”
The highly decorated newsman, who earned two Emmy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, went on to explain that he had to curtail his busy professional life.
“I’ve had to change my life in some ways. I really had to give up my daily activity with NBC. You know, I had to walk away from them as they were walking away from me. I just wasn’t the same person. … And so, for the first time in my life, I was kind of out there, you know, in a place I had never been in my life.”
Brokaw retired in 2021 from NBC News after spending 55 years with the network.
He has been married to author Meredith Lynn Auld since 1962.
The couple has three daughters.
The Post reached out to Brokaw for comment.
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