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Farrah Fawcett, who skyrocketed to fame as one of a trio of impossibly glamorous private eyes on TV’s Charlie’s Angels, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.
Blonde, blue-eyed and petite – and with a trademark mane as flowing and famous as the M.G.M. lion’s – the Corpus Christi, Texas, native was born Feb. 2, 1947, the younger daughter of an oil-field contractor and his homemaker wife.
She’s gone. She now belongs to the ages,” O’Neal tells PEOPLE, also confirming that she received the last rites of the Catholic Church. “She’s now with he mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much. She was in and out of consciousness. I talked to her all through the night. I told her how very much I loved her. She’s in a better place now.”
Added O’Neal: “She was with her team when she passed … Her eyes were open, but she didn’t say anything. But you could see in her eyes that she recognized us.”
“I’ve watched her this past year fight with such courage and so valiantly, but with such humor,” Fawcett’s Charlie’s Angels costar Kate Jackson told PEOPLE in November 2007.
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Wild Thing’s comment……
It is sad, and she really fought hard to stay alive.
A very underrated actress…she was known for the blonde hair, Charlies Angles and that poster but if you’ve ever got to see any of the other movies she did, Burning Bed comes to mind, she did an excellent job as an actress.
Rest in peace Farrah
I agree she was higher talented than she was stereotyped as. God what a horrible way to die, my wife’s uncle passed that way after horrible pain and suffering. She is in a better place right now.
I never followed her to much, but liked her movie ‘burning bed’.
May she rest in peace.
Darn. So many icons of my generation are dying. Farrah was something else on Charlies Angels. Now she is young again.
She showed so much courage at the end.
I think it’s kind of a shame that she wouldn’t marry Ryan O’Neal. He loved her so much, and proposed to her many times, and she always turned him down. That’s sad.
Jack, thank you for sharing about your
wife’s unlce. I agree she really suffered
and from all I read she really tired to
stay strong as much as possible.
Mark, I agree, that film was very strong
and she did a great job.
Tom, beautifully said.
Trish, yes, he wanted to marry her this
last week as well.
I’ll always remember her as the wild eyed defiant woman with her would-be rapist trapped in her fireplace, whacking him every time he opened his mouth! What a great actress!