Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Has “Only Days to Live,” Ex-Wife Claims

Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for creating Dilbert, is now in hospice care and may only have days left to live.

The update comes from TMZ, which spoke directly with Adams’ first ex-wife, Shelly Adams. She said Scott has been receiving end-of-life care at home for about a week as his condition has quickly gotten worse.

According to Shelly, she, her sister, and Scott’s stepdaughter have been taking care of him full time, with nurses coming in regularly.

Shelly shared that Adams is starting to become confused at times. Even so, he recently pushed himself to record what could be his final episode of his podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams. During that recording, he openly talked about the possibility that it might be the last time he speaks to his audience.

Adams, who is 68, has been fighting prostate cancer for years. The cancer spread to his bones last year and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Back in May, he told listeners he wasn’t sure he would live through the summer. In a recent health update on his podcast, he said he has been getting weaker every day.

“I talked to my radiologist yesterday and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” Adams said on the show. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.”

He also explained that the damage is permanent and that other health problems are making things harder. “So there’s no chance that 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,” he said. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another.”

Adams told listeners he has not made any final decisions yet and said his health has taken priority over everything else. “I have much bigger problems than the stuff I’m talking about in the news,” he said. “But I’m so interested in like what’s happening in the world.”

Despite his condition, Adams revealed he is still working on new comics.

He first publicly shared his cancer diagnosis in May, just one day after former President Joe Biden announced his own. Now TMZ reports that he doesn’t have much time left.

In recent years, Adams has also been a controversial figure. In 2023, many newspapers dropped Dilbert after comments he made on his podcast about race. Adams later claimed the strip was removed because of his views on “wokeness,” a claim he discussed in interviews, including one with Fox News.

At its peak, Dilbert appeared in around 2,000 newspapers across 65 countries.