Company Town. Film crew workers remain divided over new contract as voting begins. All Sections. About Us. And what it actually did was keep people from being able to give to me. She escaped to college, graduating with a nursing degree that she quickly put to use.
An aggressive recruiter soon persuaded her to join the Air Force, and she spent a couple of miserable years as a military nurse. She had soured quickly on the work, and decided to change careers, enrolling in a Baltimore broadcasting school at age 27 on little more than a whim. She had always gotten compliments on her speaking voice, even from patients, but had never thought much of it.
Even as the show moved to New York and her professional life prospered, she was an emotional mess, fighting with Stern and her co-workers, barely holding it together in her off hours. She needed to make the real-life Robin Quivers as confident and grounded as she was on air. She went into therapy, took up Transcendental Meditation Stern does it too and, for a while, cut her family out of her life before cautiously resuming contact.
When her dad died in , Quivers wept for 24 straight hours, without feeling anything. It was done. The monster was gone. But she was still looking for spiritual answers. A few years back, she went to Peru and took the hallucinogen ayahuasca with a shaman on three separate nights, vomiting in a bucket each time.
The first night brought harrowing visions of all the misery suffered by womankind the world over; the second night yielded a bunch of pretty colors — and the shaman yelled at her for doing it wrong. On the third night, she learned the meaning of life. Not what your mother or father or friends or society want.
J ust after 5 a. Quivers is in the back seat, waiting for security to take her into the studio. Trailed by a Howard TV cameraman, Stern arrives, looking tall and thin, almost fragile, with unexpectedly kind eyes. When the show was first set to move to satellite radio, Quivers wondered whether it might be time to leave. Quivers works with The Girl Fund, a program organized by the United Nations that advocates for education of girls in countries where they are often exploited.
Quivers also founded the 15 Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve academics, nutrition and arts education in grades K In her autobiography, "Quivers: A Life," she reveals that she was molested by her father at a young age. Quivers was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in She currently resides in New York City. The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security. Skip to main content Press Enter.
Quivers' friend, Susan Schneidermesser, was at the hospital and kept her other friends, including Stern, updated on the doctors' progress. Schneidermesser revealed :. That man just cried like a baby every single time I spoke to him. Stern was so distraught that he announced that if Quivers did not survive her illness, he would quit his show, since he was not prepared to continue without his co-host of over 30 years.
After 12 hours, Schneidermesser was able to set his mind at ease. The worst-case scenario was averted, and after the successful surgery, Quivers underwent grueling chemotherapy and radiation treatments to eradicate every trace of the cancerous cells from her body. It would be 15 months before she was physically back in the studio, but her listeners never knew it.
She said :. Gave me four hours of extreme separation from what was really going on in my life. In , three months after her last treatment, Quivers received the news every cancer patient hopes for.
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