B ut yeah, certainly there were times when everyone in the room was crying." "I cried every day," Green told Business Insider. “And they lived happily ever after,” Katie said, “in each other’s arms for eternity.An adaptation of the 2012 best-selling novel of the same name, we caught up with author John Green recently who told us there were a lot of tears shed on set, too. “I think that if we had gotten the chance to write a book that it would have been a bestseller,” she said. “I’d rather have five years of being in love and just really completely happy than 20 years of not having anybody.” “It gave me some of the best years of my life,” she said. Katie recently told CNN she had no regrets. Louis hospital while Katie talked to him on FaceTime. They tried to see each other again, but Dalton wasn’t healthy enough to travel. The last time they saw each other was on July 16 – their fifth wedding anniversary. Katie’s transplant didn’t work very well, and she was in and out of the hospital until earlier this month, when doctors said there wasn’t anything else they could do. Then Dalton developed lymphoma, which he overcame but was hospitalized recently in Missouri with a viral infection and pneumonia.
In 2014, they both entered the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to await lung transplants, which happened by July 2015. It was like something out of a fairy tale.” Unfortunately, he also gave her his infection almost immediately.ĭespite the infections, they married two years later and remained relatively healthy for the next few years. They bought a house in Flemingsburg and filled it with wedding photos and board games, hosting regular game nights and traveling and cooking.Ī few days before she died, Katie told CNN the years together “were great. They spent their first date riding roller coasters Kings Island amusement park, and Dalton gave her a necklace for her 19th birthday. – they remember the time exactly – Katie got out of the car and saw Dalton leaning against a brick wall. “My heart was racing, but I just went right up to him and hugged and kissed him on the mouth without even saying hello,” she said. She went anyway, meeting at a Dairy Queen.Īccording to CNN, at 7:10 p.m. Katie’s doctor urged her not to, because Dalton had an infection called Burkholderia cepacia, which can be deadly for people with cystic fibrosis. The couple garnered worldwide attention last year when CNN wrote about Katie’s fight to get a lung transplant.Īfter a period of getting to know each other online, Dalton and his mother drove six hours from their home in St. He was a courageous fighter and ‘give up’ wasn’t in his vocabulary.” After her husband died, she posted on Facebook “Dalton fought a long hard battle with cystic fibrosis. Prager was in hospice care in her Flemingsburg, Kentucky, home since Sept. “The days to follow will not be easy but I find comfort in knowing that my girl lived, she really lived.” “Early this morning, she gained her wish of being at home, in her bed, surrounded by her mom, dad, brother and her dogs, dying peacefully, away from the hospital, tubes, IVs,” Prager’s mother, Debra Donovan, wrote on Facebook. Katie Prager, the real-life “Fault in Our Stars” wife, has died just days after her husband Dalton.
Real 'The Fault in Our Stars' couple dies days apart