Inside Wheel of Fortune Vanna Whites tragic | TV Shows

Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White has been a major fixture on the sport show for nearly 4 many years. She told PEOPLE Magazine that the show’s creator was impressed with her chemistry with host Pat Sajak, touchdown her the life-changing gig.

“He said it was like brotherly and sisterly chemistry,” White said in the interview, including that in the 37 years they have been on air together, she and Sajak have “never had a single fight in real life.”

While White has a commendable profession, her personal life has not always been so excellent. On May 17, 1986, White misplaced her then-fiancé, John Gibson, in a aircraft crash. It took just that one second to make White’s world come crashing down.

“The second I heard about it, I fell to my knees. It was just devastating,” White recalled.

Wheel of Fortune followers helped her get through that troublesome time, she said. “I heard from so many people who had shared the same experience of losing someone instantly in an accident, and that really helped me. I didn’t feel like I was alone. Because when something like that happens, you immediately think you’re the only one,” she added.

She married restaurateur George Santo Pietro in 1990, and was pregnant with their first youngster in 1992. However, a week after asserting her being pregnant, she miscarried.

“I so wanted to be pregnant and have a baby, so then when I finally got pregnant, I wanted to tell the world immediately,” she told PEOPLE Magazine.

“Obviously I lost the baby, which was devastating after announcing it. The good news is I was able to get pregnant again and had two beautiful, healthy children. … But losing a child — there’s nothing good about that,” she added.

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White’s assist system—made of her household, associates and followers, helped her cope with the miscarriage. She also turned to her religion.

“I’m a Christian and have always had my own personal relationship with God,” she said. “I don’t preach about it, because everyone’s entitled to their own beliefs. But I pray. I pray every day.”

Though White and Santo Pietro went their own separate methods in 2002, White is now in a live-in relationship with John Donaldson, who she met through a mutual pal.

“He lets me be me, I let him be him. There is no drama,” she said of her relationship with Donaldson.