A fan recently shared her encounter with Alex Trebek from 2016 and it’s delightful. It’s easy to see why he was so beloved and why he is so dearly missed. Below you will find some context to her fan encounter:

 

In 2016, Alex Trebek visited Washington D.C. so I took the opportunity to ask him a question about a story my father had maintained was true for decades – namely, that Alex had lived in his aunt’s basement while he was a student at the University of Ottawa. Everyone involved in that story had died so he had no one who could back him up. Well, it turns out there was one person…