Farrah Fawcett dead of Cancer

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I'm sure a couple of other cafe members will remember her. One of the original Charlies Angels, a very attractive and glamourous woman.

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Ryan O'Neal, the long-term love of actress Farrah Fawcett, has told how the 1970s icon is bedridden with cancer and has lost her famous blonde tresses.

One of the original Charlie's Angels, Fawcett has been suffering from cancer for several years and she is very ill.

"It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her," O'Neal, 68, told People magazine. "Cancer is an insidious enemy."

The actress has suffered with bowel cancer for several years but the condition has now spread through her body.

"She stays in bed now," O'Neal said. "The doctors see that she is comfortable. Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended."

The actress travelled to Germany to undergo intensive treatment two years ago and at one time it seemed as though she was in remission - but the cancer soon returned.

Now, she is visited at home by close friends, including fellow Charlie's Angels stars Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson and she watches TV when she feels well enough.

Her son, Redmond, has recently been in trouble over drugs - but O'Neal made it clear to the magazine that he keeps bad news from her.

"Farrah doesn't know Redmond's in trouble," said the actor, who has been Fawcett's off-and-on-love for many years.

"And Redmond is terrified for his mother. 'I don't want to be in jail and have some guard tell me she is gone,' he said to me.

"I told him, 'She's rebounding.' I lied to him. I lie to her. It's the best thing."
Redmond, meanwhile, is shortly to be transferred to a clinic for rehab.

As for Fawcett's famous blonde tresses - they are gone. But that has not worried her, O'Neal said.
Terrible disease and terribly hard for her family to watch her go through it.
 
O'Neal has done right by her. He has taken very good care of her for the past two years. He has been devastated by this. There's a good article on this in the Telegraph today. Just shows you no matter how beautiful or successful you might be that goddam cancer can reach its tenticles out to you.
 
oh no, thats terrible. I used to love watching charlies angles when i was a young lad
 
Farrah Fawcett dies aged 62

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/farrah-fawcett-dies_n_220849.html

LOS ANGELES — Farrah Fawcett, the "Charlie's Angels" star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62.

The pop icon, who in the 1980s set aside the fantasy girl image to tackle serious roles, died shortly before 9:30 a.m. in a Santa Monica hospital, spokesman Paul Bloch said.

Ryan O'Neal, the longtime companion who had reunited with Fawcett as she fought anal cancer, was at her side, along with close friend Alana Stewart, Bloch said.

Awww... R.I.P. Farrah! :(

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WOAH !?

I haven't been on news sites or watching regular tele with Tennis on, what a tragic story.

Ed McMahon the other day, and now this?
 
WOAH !?

I haven't been on news sites or watching regular tele with Tennis on, what a tragic story.

Ed McMahon the other day, and now this?

I was genuinely going to reply earlier saying celebs die in threes which means theres one more to go. Now Jacko :nervous:
 
Gorgeous and courageous woman! RIP

Feel sorry for her to the ful extent that her death has been overshadowed by Michael's but in the end his death was always going to overshadow somesones.
 
in hollywoodland this would normally be 'news' at least the family and friends will get some privacy cos of the huge noise of the other news
 
Tough break for a really nice girl.

Her Angels days got her in the limelight but she did some excellent unsung work playing gritty roles involving, alcaholism, battered wives and child abuse.

Sorry to hear of her death.
 
Feel sorry for her to the ful extent that her death has been overshadowed by Michael's but in the end his death was always going to overshadow somesones.

I don't think she'll be all that upset about it, to be honest. What with her being dead 'n all.