LIVE with Kelly and Mark co-host reflected on the 'quick and painless' who passed away, at age 87, on March 23 after a long illness.
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Mark Consuelos Reflects on Fathers Quick Passing
LIVE with Kelly and Mark co-host Mark Consuelos reflected on the 'quick and painless' death of his father Saul Consuelos who passed away, at age 87, on March 23...
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'It was like a kind of a brutal five-month saga leading up to him passing,' the 55-year-old Daytime winner told the I've Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario podcast on Tuesday.
'And I knew it was happening like when I saw him, you know, that we all knew in five months, you know, this is going to happen whether it takes a year or two years, this is happening. And so I prepared myself for the eventuality that this was going to happen.'
Consuelos 'prayed for a merciful exit' for his father, who was like a 'mythical character' to him.
'Thankfully, it happened that way very quickly and painlessly and it was so merciful,' the Spanish-born American said.
'He's like the best man I've ever met. He's just, you know, everything good that I've kind of glommed on to of how I carry myself comes from him.'
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark co-host Mark Consuelos reflected on the 'quick and painless' death of his father Saul Consuelos who passed away, at age 87, on March 23 after a long illness (pictured in 2022)
The 55-year-old Daytime Emmy winner told the I've Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario podcast on Tuesday: 'It was like a kind of a brutal five-month saga leading up to him passing, and I knew it was happening [in months or years]'
The US Navy veteran - who immigrated from Mexico as a teenager - served the States for 30 years, ending up at the US Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
On April 27, the whole Consuelos family reunited for a celebration of life memorial for Saul featuring a Mexican ofrenda and mariachi band.
'The reality of him being gone hit, of him actually being gone,' the Scream 7 actor recalled.
Consuelos 'prayed for a merciful exit' for his father, who was like a 'mythical character' to him
'Thankfully, it happened that way very quickly and painlessly and it was so merciful,' the Spanish-born American said
He continued: 'He's like the best man I've ever met. He's just, you know, everything good that I've kind of glommed on to of how I carry myself comes from him'
The US Navy veteran - who immigrated from Mexico as a teenager - served the States for 30 years, ending up at the US Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida
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On April 27, the whole Consuelos family reunited for a celebration of life memorial for Saul featuring a Mexican ofrenda and mariachi band
'The reality of him being gone hit, of him actually being gone,' the Scream 7 actor recalled. 'I'm going to miss giving him a hug or holding his hand or just, you know, laughing with him'
Consuelos first publicly announced the death of the patriarch during the April 6 episode of his ABC morning show where his wife Kelly Ripa revealed their three adult children 'took it particularly hard. This is their first loss that they've ever experienced in their lives'
The 9-1-1 actor said of his Italian mother Camilla, still living in Florida: 'Now we got to take care of mom. We're trying to convince my mom to move to New York. She's such a character. She's very stubborn' (pictured April 27 with his daughter Lola)
On May 1, the inseparable presenters impressively celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with the 55-year-old Jersey Girl writing on Instagram: '360 months. 1,565 weeks. 10,957 days. 15,778,080 minutes and I'll be loving you always. Cheers to 30 years!'
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Consuelos and Ripa originally met at a gym in 1995 before playing onscreen lovers Mateo and Hayley on the ABC soap opera All My Children
The empty nester (R, pictured April 19) made his Broadway debut as Maurice Duclos opposite Rose Byrne in the Noël Coward 1928-set comedy Fallen Angels, which runs through June 7 at the Todd Haimes Theatre in Midtown Manhattan
Consuelos and Ripa originally met at a gym in 1995 before playing onscreen lovers Mateo and Hayley on the ABC soap opera All My Children.
The charismatic couple famously eloped at the Chapel of the Bells in Las Vegas in 1996 after only a year of dating and, in 2024, they returned for a visit.
Consuelos made his Broadway debut as Maurice Duclos opposite Rose Byrne in the Noël Coward 1928-set comedy Fallen Angels, which runs through June 7 at the Todd Haimes Theatre in Midtown Manhattan.
Speaking of which, the empty nesters' youngest son Joaquin made his own Broadway debut as the younger version of Biff (Christopher Abbott) in Death of a Salesman, which runs through August 9 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Midtown Manhattan.
'And to have my son on Broadway at the same time is absolutely nuts. It's crazy. I am so proud of him. Really, really proud of him,' Consuelos gushed.
Last year, the 23-year-old nepo baby graduated from the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance where he also competed on the wrestling team.
It was a 30-year journey for Nathan Lane to finally take on the iconic role of Willy Loman opposite Laurie Metcalf and Ben Ahlers in director Joe Mantello's revival of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1949 drama.
On June 2, Consuelos and Ripa will celebrate the 29th birthday of their eldest Michael, who acted in their Audible Original podcast series Summer Breeze last year, and the NYU grad also worked as an associate producer on Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Potomac.
Meanwhile, their 24-year-old daughter Lola lives in London and released her debut EP Sorry, It's All About Me on December 4 after graduating from NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2023.
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