(CNN) Famed televangelist Jim Bakker recently had a stroke, his wife said. His eponymous TV show will continue to film without him while he recovers.
Lori Bakker announced her 80-year-old husband would take a sabbatical from “The Jim Bakker Show,” the Christian TV program the couple cohosts.
Working nonstop took a “huge toll” on her husband’s health, she said. Bakker was recently sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt for claiming a silver product could kill coronavirus.
“We are thankful that Jim is okay, and that he is now at home with our family,” she wrote in a Facebook post from the show’s page. “Jim will be back!”