Fox News star Jessica Tarlov learned her dad was about to die on her wedding day

Fox News star Jessica Tarlov has revealed how she learned her gravely ill father was nearing death on her wedding day, months before she landed a regular seat on “The Five.”Tarlov, 42, recounts the intensely personal stretch in her new book, “I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends,” describing how she got married while 12 weeks pregnant as her father’s years-long battle with tongue cancer entered its final stage.“The good news: I found the right guy,” Tarlov writes in an excerpt published by People.“My short, pink-lace dress with feathers was gorgeous.And I was twelve weeks pregnant, which was very exciting.”Tarlov then wrote: “The bad news: It was the day I found out that my dad was going to die very soon.”Her father, Mark Tarlov, was a film producer who later became a winemaker.

He had been diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2007.According to his wife, Mark Tarlov, who lived in the Tribeca section of Manhattan, fell ill after being exposed to what was believed to be toxic air in the aftermath of the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center just a few blocks away.Jessica Tarlov and her husband, Brian McKenna, initially planned to marry in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall after getting together during the COVID-19 pandemic.On the morning of the ceremony, Tarlov’s mother told her she needed to take her father to Memorial Sloan Kettering.He made it back in time for the wedding, arriving in a wheelchair with a tracheal tube and unable to speak clearly.“Everyone cried.

A lot,” Jessica Tarlov recounted.“The mix of happiness and sadness was one of the most intense feelings I’ve ever experienced.”She said her husband’s family had never met her father before the ceremony, and McKenna’s mother later told her she feared he might not survive the event.Her father’s health continued to deteriorate that summer as pneumonia repeatedly sent him to the hospital.Tarlov wrote that after he and h...