Shay Martin Reveals Late Husband Tanner's 1 Condition If She Ever Decides to Remarry After His Death

Shay Martin is continuing to unfastened up astir her precocious husband, Tanner, pursuing his death successful June.

Five years aft Tanner was diagnosed pinch colorectal crab astatine property 25, Shay announced nan decease of nan contented creator by posting a prerecorded video of him sharing nan tragic news, telling his followers, “If you’re watching this, I americium dead.” 

During a tearful quality connected The Unplanned Podcast, hosted by influencers Matt and Abby Howard, Shay, 29, recounted nan speech she had pinch her precocious hubby earlier his decease astir whether she would remarry.

“We person nan goofy Tanner, and past we person nan serious, very saccharine Tanner,” she said connected nan episode, which was released connected Oct. 1. “Serious-very-sweet Tanner is like, ‘I don’t want you to beryllium unsocial for nan remainder of your life. I want you to find personification to emotion and who will emotion you successful this life. Goofy Tanner would opportunity — and he did opportunity — ‘Yeah, you tin remarry, but he has to slumber astatine nan ft of nan bed. One 1000 percent, that is simply a nonstop quote.”

Later successful nan podcast, nan speech turned to Tanner’s funeral crippled — and Shay said that nan brace had gotten a associated headstone inscribed pinch some of their names.

“I cannot show you nan magnitude of times I’ve gotten nan comment, ‘What if you remarry?’ ” she said. “And my reply is, ‘Well, I want to beryllium cremated, truthful they tin divided my ashes. I don’t care.”

Tanner first shared that he was diagnosed pinch shape 4 colon crab successful 2020, learning successful 2023 that nan information was not curable and that he had betwixt 2 and 5 years near to live.

In November 2024, nan brace announced that they were expecting their first child, and Shay gave commencement to girl AmyLou conscionable complete a period earlier he died.

In an question and reply pinch The Washington Post a period aft her husband’s death, Shay described her last moments pinch him, remembering his desire to watch nan full original trilogy of Indiana Jones films aft leaving hospice attraction to return home. He yet died early successful nan greeting of June 25.

"I had a heck of a life. I decided to make this video announcing my decease because I saw personification did that, like, a twelvemonth aliases truthful ago, and I deliberation it's a bully opportunity to get each your thoughts out," said Tanner successful nan video announcing his death. "Hopefully, I judge there's thing aft this. I'm excited to meet those people, and hopefully we're hanging retired now and making nosy of each you nerds.”

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In nan days pursuing her husband’s death, Shay shared an update connected a GoFundMe page raising money to support their family that nan hundreds of thousands of dollars they had raised successful conscionable a fewer days was “beyond thing I could’ve imagined.”

"I’ve been sitting pinch my manus connected my bosom each day, conscionable trying to return it each in. Tanner ever said nan net could beryllium a beautiful spot — and now I’ve seen it pinch my ain eyes," she wrote. “You’ve fixed AmyLou and maine truthful overmuch much than financial support. You’ve fixed america hope. You’ve made america consciousness seen. You’ve honored Tanner successful nan astir unthinkable way."