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Larry King, who died in January, was being broadcast for 63 years through radio and television. He specialized in long extensive interviews with everyone from killers sentenced to actors in the list. CNN estimates that he has ledMore than 50,000 through his career. Despite his experience, the guests speak, he has not always managed to facilitate a sparkling conversation. Before his death, Larry King revealed the interview he counted as his worst. Read it to know who it was with whom, for more legend, here isThe only question Larry King regretted asking.

When the king was a guest on SiriusxmSwing in the morningIn December 2012, co-facilitatorHeather B. Gardner asked if he had already had an interview thatI did not go. King started a story on a2004 episode ofLarry King Live in which he welcomedPhyllis doors, an old talented agency assistant who was briefly married to the actorRock HudsonIn the 1950s. Hudson was famous not only for his films, but for his homosexuality, an identity he kept private for a large part of his life. He died complications of AIDS in 1985.

While the doors had co-writing an autobiography,My husband, Rock Hudson, who came out in 1987, she did not make many public appearances. CNN promoted the episode to viewers with that in mind and king impatiently awaited an interesting conversation.

"So we had Phyllis doors and promoted it all day," he said onTo balance. "Phyllis Gates! Rock Hudson had a woman, you'll meet rock Hudson's wife!" ... and then they promoted it. "

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King described doors like a "a nice little old lady". Unfortunately, she was not a talkative person.

He recalled that she gave her answers from a word to his questions, by declining to develop on topics, including if she knew that Hudson was gay when they get married (she did not have) and that he passed when she reached her ex-husband. After learning his diagnosis of AIDS.

The entire time was blocked for their maintenance, which gave the host with a challenge.

"I look up at the clock, I'm four minutes," King continued. "I still had 56 minutes to deal with this woman, who has nothing to say. I almost said," Did you know? "

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Years later, King still remembered his discussion with doors like one of histhe most difficult. In a conversation with a political consultantFrank Luntz In August 2020, he explained why not even a painful night like this could have tried to pre-record his interviews.

"But it's the hazards of this case," King said. "That's why, something else, I love, love, love working live. I like to live better than the cassette ... I loved the moment, I loved it happening so."

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In the last part of his career, King did not even have always known in advance for him to speak in the air.

"Often, I do not know who I'm going to interview when I drive,"he saidEntertainment tonight ofLarry King now, who ran from 2012 to 2020. "Because I love him on the top. So, I'm going to have notes, they will give me who the guest is, but then I wings. You know, it's just a free flow. "

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