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It is difficult to imagine a world without Gene Wilder , whose name will forever be synonymous with Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory . THE Actor of the 70s died of complications with Alzheimer's disease in 2016, a few days before his 25th wedding anniversary to his wife Karen Boyer . Now, in a new documentary entitled Remember Gene Wilder , Boyer remembers his last moments with Wilder, including the last words he told him.

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The pair first crossed paths on the Tour Don't see any harm hears no harm In 1989. Boyer was a speech consultant, whom Wilder had hit during the film's research process, according to People . However, their first meeting only arrived later - following the death of Wilder's third wife, Saturday Night Live actor Gilda Radner , deceased from ovary cancer.

Wilder and Boyer have become inseparable. She married the Flamboyant stools Actor in 1991 and stayed alongside Wilder until his death in 2016.

Remember Gene Wilder Chronicle of the actor's last years and has interviews without viewing with some of the actor's closest parents. In the documentary, Boyer remembers the last words exchanged between her and her late husband, as well as the song that binds her forever at this special moment.

"Music played in the background-Fitzgerald sang" somewhere on the rainbow "", explains Boyer in the film, by People .

"I was lying next to him and he sat down in bed and he said:" I trust you "", she remembers, before adding ", then he said:" I love you. ""

"This is the last thing he said," said Boyer.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Boyer reveals that Wilder has never fully recognized that he was fighting against Alzheimer's. However, his drop in memory became obvious to Boyer when Wilder did not remember the name of his film "Favorite", Young Frankenstein , in which he depicts the main character. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"He never really accepted that he had Alzheimers, and maybe when we discovered that it was what it was, his hippocampe did not let him remember," said Boyer in one of his interviews.

Boyer also remembers having to put a courageous face as the disease progressed: "When I see him moving away from me, I was sick in my stomach but I had to keep smiling and everything was fine. "

Wilder died at 83 in their Connecticut family home, People reported at the time. "Gene was wonderful; he was the best husband I think anyone might ask. To love and be loved is the best gift you can ask, and we have done," said Boyer about their union in Remember Gene Wilder .

The emotional documentary is currently playing in theaters in New York and will go to Los Angeles on Friday March 22, before hitting screens nationwide.