He continued: “Once I went to this present that Jeff placed on about John, and it was a implausible, two-hour present that he did for about 100 individuals, and I stated, ‘So Jeff, what’s occurring with Chris?’ And he appears at me, goes, ‘Howard, Chris simply died final week.’ ‘Actually?’ I’m going, ‘Oh no.'”
Johnny might have been extra centered on his present whereas alive, one thing Thomas claimed pushed him additional away from his kids, and stated the TV star didn’t have no matter it took “to be a father the best way he wished to be a father or the best way he thought he needs to be a father.”
Johnny, who was married 4 instances, shared his sons Chris, Rick, and youngest Cory, along with his first spouse, Joan Morrill Wolcott. The 2 parted methods in 1963 after practically 15 years.