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Gene Wilder’s last words were: “I love you.” The ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ actor, who died from Alzheimer’s disease aged 83 in 2016, made the statement to his wife Karen Boyer while they listened to Ella Fitzgerald’s rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in bed. Karen, 81, who was married to Gene from 1991, says in the new documentary ‘Remembering Gene Wilder’: “The music was playing in the background – Ella Fitzgerald was singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, and I was lying next to him and he sat up in bed and he said, ‘I trust you.’ “And then he said, ‘I love you.’ That’s …

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