Bob Saget and John Mayer.Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
While attending theCool Comedy * Hot Cuisinefundraiser on Thursday, benefitting the Scleroderma Research Foundation, the musician recalled the “three-hour conversations” he shared with theFull Housestar “that spanned time and space.”
“I’m thinking, like we all do, ‘Well, that was a nice dinner. I can’t wait to see him again,'” he exclusively told PEOPLE on the red carpet. “But on my way home, [I’d get] a giant text that Bob had dictated into his iPhone, half of which was him railing on Siri. But these incredibly loving texts, after having sat with him for three hours, getting another text of this expression of kindness and love.”
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“He would take it in the car and go, ‘I have to let that man know how special tonight was,’ and that’s the legacy for me,” he adds about Saget, whodied at age 65in January. “To just let people know as much as you can, not just that you love them, but that the things that you do together are meaningful. I don’t think we let each other know how meaningful these things are.”
“To be able to write someone, and go, ‘Hey, I’m really glad I met you,’ you know, some of those things hit even harder than some of the more didactic things,” Mayer, 44, continued. “He just really appreciated the meaning of life and the meaningfulness of life.”
Mayer says the aspects of his late friend that remain with him are Saget’s “kindness, caring, absurdity, mixed with love,” and his ability to hold onto the “silliness” we “all lose” as we get older. “He reminded me every time that, ‘Yes, John, you can afford to be a little sillier if you’ve got love in your heart,'” he said about the actor. “It was this great mix of silliness, absurdity, and a deep, deep undercurrent of love.”
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The “New Light” singer also took to the stage at the fundraiser, performing a set with a very special memento of Saget’s: the guitar he played during his last show. “[Bob’s wife] Kelly and Bob’s daughters Lara and Aubrey were so sweet and tracked the guitar down,” he said. “It was a rental in Florida, and they tracked it down and bought it off of the guy who owned the music shop… that to me is a real, real cherished guitar.”
While his entire set was dedicated to Saget, Mayer played his 2017 song “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me” especially in his honor. “I knew I would be singing it at some point in my life for those I lost, but I never thought I would be singing it for Bob,” he said. “I thought to myself when I first walked in the room, ‘Why couldn’t he have been here for his tribute? Why couldn’t we have had a tribute to Bob Saget four years ago, while he was here?'”
“The great thing is that no one who knew Bob has that abject misery of wondering whether he knew how much they loved him or wondering whether he loved them as much as he did,” he adds. “His accounting was impeccable.”
source: people.com
