SAD NEWS: Brave Canc3r warrior lost the Final fight – GMA hosts Michael Strahan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos mourn beloved 51-year-old Colleague!
GOOD Morning America host Robin Roberts choked back tears after announcing a show producer’s d3ath.
Robin struggled to hold back her emotions on the ABC show on Monday as she discussed cnc3r-survivor Thea Trachtenberg’s d3ath at 51.
The cause of Thea’s d3ath is not yet known, though Robin noted in a post that her friend was a two-time cnC3r “thriver.”
Robin and her fellow anchors George Stephanopoulos, who was recently diagnosed with CVD-19, and Michael Strahan became emotional as they watched a montage of Thea’s life on the show.
The 59-year-old, who previously survived a battle with breast cnc3r, then paid tribute to Thea.
She told her co-hosts: “She was also a great poet, you remember those Christmas poems she would send out every year?”
In ode to Thea’s poems, Robin penned her own rhyme for her friend: “She’s a gifted scripter, a producing machine, and while producing the machines, the things she must have seen.”
Robin also revealed Thea was the producer she wanted with her while interviewing Michelle Obama upon her ascension to First Lady.
She recalled: “I said I want Thea by my side – she was a force that went and went and went.
“She was a mentor to so many of our staff.”
Struggling to hold back the tears, Robin went on: “Her fellow colleagues really really loved her, that’s what we should remember about Thea. Boy she had a big heart.”
“She was a 2x cnc3r thriver & the producer you wanted by your side for big interviews like when we sat down with @MichelleObama for her first interview as first lady. We celebrate Thea next.”
The tragedy comes after Robin broke down in tears as she announced that a show cameraman had d13d from coronavirus.
Tony Greer passed away last week from complications due to CVD-19.
The broadcaster went on to remember ABC cameraman as a “bright light” and someone who had a “beautiful spirit that you could feel from a mile away.”
She continued: “We loved Tony and there were so many things he loved.
“He loved his family … he loved taking his nieces, nephews – any family member who would come visit – out into the city.
“He loved his longtime girlfriend, Robin – we are thinking about her.”
