Thanks.

Interesting in context -- wonder if he knew at the time, it would be right at the limit of the time-window described in the article I guess.

In the TMZ article it mentions a 9 year battle with cancer.

Yeah, at least from my quick glance it looked like the special came out in 2011, which would put it around there. There's fuzziness on either side -- on one hand there was presumably some editing time, on the other he seems to have kept it private, presumably whoever told TMZ found out a little bit after he did, and their memory might not have been perfect. It is just in the ballpark.