Howard Stern announced to his SiriusXM radio listeners why he was off the air last week — he finally got Covid-19.
The radio legend is a notorious and vocal germaphobe, and since the coronavirus came to the U.S. in the winter of 2020, he has successfully avoided the illness. Not so anymore, according to his Monday show.
“See if we can get through this show. We were supposed to be back last week. We weren’t,” Stern flatly said. “Because I got Covid 19.”
“I just want to announce something. Covid is really bad,” he added. “You do not want Covid. Oh fuck.”
Stern has previously revealed how his paranoia surrounding Covid led him to fight with his wife, Beth Stern.
“I’m going crazy with this. My wife yelled at me last night. We got into a fight. You know how paranoid I am about getting covid. I haven’t gotten it, and I’m pretty safe, and I really don’t want to get it,” Stern said.
“Everyone goes, ‘Don’t worry, it’s just a cold for me.’ It’ll probably be way worse. You know what I mean? I mean, I’m the lucky one who will completely fall apart. My wife’s considerably younger than me, as you might have heard. She’s not as concerned about getting Covid as I am, because, you know, I’m an older dude,” Stern explained.
Stern eventually apologized to his wife, saying “It makes me nervous. I’m neurotic. Listen, I have a lot of issues. I’m a neurotic. You know what a neurotic is?” Stern said.
