The latest on cartoonist Scott Adams’ deteriorating health includes an update on being “pretty close” to the end, while his ex-wife addressed who was caring for him.
Since May 2025, the legendary creator of “Dilbert” has been publicly sharing his battle with aggressive prostate cancer. Amid the highs and lows that include positive intervention from President Donald Trump’s administration and grim brushes with mortality, Adams’ first wife, Shelly Miles, informed TMZ that he was now receiving “end-of-life care.”
The outlet reported that, “Shelly says she, her sister, and Scott’s stepdaughter have been caring for him around the clock, with nurses coming in and out.”
It was also explained that the 68-year-old Adams, who has faced bouts of confusion, has “been receiving end-of-life care at home for the past week as his health rapidly declines.”
Last week, the conservative host of “Coffee With Scott Adams” told his podcast viewers that he’d likely done the last installment of the show. Since then, he’d transitioned CWSA into “The Scott Adams School.”
On Monday, the discussion included Owen Gregorian, Joel Pollak, Miles, and others as Adams himself started the podcast, saying, “I will probably be kinda quiet today, because I’m pretty close to my end date.”
CWSA-The Scott Adans School 01/12/26 https://t.co/odwL0ixc3X
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 12, 2026
At the close of the podcast, the ailing cartoonist and author further explained, “Just an update on me. You can tell I’m getting weaker and weaker. I’ve been told that the way I’ll know how much time I have left is by how tired I am and how much pain I am in, basically. So, my tiredness and my pain are maxing out, and I’m in quite bad shape at the moment.”
Adams detailed how when he’d fall asleep on Sunday, he had the feeling he wasn’t going to wake up again. “I’m hanging on as long as I can for moral support.”
When the year began, he told his supporters, “I talked to my radiologist yesterday … and it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. I’ll give you updates if that changes, but it won’t.”
“So there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs. And I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day. But at the moment,” said Adams, “I can breathe, and I’m not in any pain.”
“However, you should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other,” he advised, two months after a plea for the Trump administration to act had resulted in his insurance provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, “stepping up” to see to it that he had access to a potentially life-saving treatment with Pluvicto.
Facing his own mortality with inspiring grace, Adams also expressed his plan to convert to Christianity, saying, “I still have time.”
“My understanding is that you’re never too late,” he added amid an outpouring of prayer for both his conversion and recovery. “So, to my Christian friends, yes, it’s coming.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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