‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams
Only Has Days Left to Live, Ex-Wife Says
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Scott Adams — the legendary cartoonist behind “Dilbert” — doesn’t have much time left … TMZ has learned.
Scott’s first ex-wife, Shelly Adams, tells TMZ … Scott has been in hospice at home for a week with probably “days left” due to his quickly declining health.
Shelly tells us she’s been taking care of Scott, along with her sister and Scott’s stepdaughter, with nurses coming in and out.
She explained, “He’s starting to get confused about what is happening, but recently stayed up to film his latest podcast episode where he addresses the fact that it may be his last one ever.”
Scott, 68, has been battling prostate cancer, which spread to his bones last year. The disease left him paralyzed below the waist, and basically counting his days since last May. That’s when he told his podcast audience he thought he might not make it past the summer.
The creator has long been controversial. In 2023, newspapers began dropping his famous cartoon strip after he advised white people to “get the f*** away” from Black people in a controversial episode of his podcast.
At the time, Scott suspected his cartoons were actually removed because he started to comment on “wokeness” in his work.
He told Fox News, “It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess.”
During its prime, “Dilbert” was published in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries.
