During a segment of his Sirius XM morning show, Stern, who became a shut-in after the virus tore across the planet in 2020, admitted he is terrified of contracting the illness while his wife, Beth Ostrosky, is much less worried.
“I’m going crazy with this. My wife yelled at me last night. We got into a fight,” the 69-year-old shock jock said [per Fox News] when a caller asked how he’s coping with the news of the latest coronavirus strain.
“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 also vented about friends trying to ease his fears by telling him it’s “just a cold.”
“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,” Stern said.
“You know, my wife’s considerably younger than me, as you might have heard. And you know, she’s not as concerned about getting COVID as I am, because, you know, I’m an older dude.”
After several years of lockdown, Stern said he had just started to relax in public and had already started to accept the fact that he might catch the virus.
“Beth has a bunch of plans. She has like a wedding shower to go to and lunch to go to with a friend and a dinner and a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, you know, we’re really making an effort. We go out to restaurants. We went to the Ed Sheeran concert. We’ve really been out there. I haven’t gotten COVID. And I’m like, you know what? If I get it, I get it,” he said.
