The Ethel Empower Hour: A Conversation with Delia Ephron on Second Chances
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Senior editor Iris Krasnow talks with author and screenwriter Delia Ephron about her memoir, "Left on Tenth," set in her Greenwich Village home and shaped by significant losses and renewal. Ephron shares her experience grieving her sister Nora Ephron and her husband Jerry, writing a New York Times op-ed about disconnecting Jerry’s phone, and receiving an email from psychiatrist Peter Rutter, whom she’d briefly dated 54 years earlier. Their relationship develops through letters and calls, but Ephron is later diagnosed with leukemia, undergoing chemotherapy, an experimental drug, and a bone marrow transplant, facing severe depression and complications. She credits “love and medicine,” her doctors, Peter, and loyal girlfriends for helping her survive and heal, eventually regaining strength through intense physical therapy. Peter joins to describe their immediate connection, and they reflect on later-life love, home, and synchronicity.
Senior editor Iris Krasnow talks with author and screenwriter Delia Ephron about her memoir, "Left on Tenth," set in her Greenwich Village home and shaped by significant losses and renewal. Ephron shares her experience grieving her sister Nora Ephron and her husband Jerry, writing a New York Times op-ed about disconnecting Jerry’s phone, and receiving an email from psychiatrist Peter Rutter, whom she’d briefly dated 54 years earlier. Their relationship develops through letters and calls, but Ephron is later diagnosed with leukemia, undergoing chemotherapy, an experimental drug, and a bone marrow transplant, facing severe depression and complications. She credits “love and medicine,” her doctors, Peter, and loyal girlfriends for helping her survive and heal, eventually regaining strength through intense physical therapy. Peter joins to describe their immediate connection, and they reflect on later-life love, home, and synchronicity.
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