‘Charlie’s Angels’ Farrah Fawcett Dies
Farrah Fawcett, the late ’70s golden-haired sex symbol, has passed away at the age of 62. The Texas-born college dropout is most well known for her appearance on the detective series ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and has been featured on thousands of posters.
Fawcett died of a rare cancer at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, only days after agreeing to marry her long-time boyfriend Ryan O’Neal. Her condition had been on the rocks for a couple months, preventing her from going to the premier of her NBC documentary in May, and she was just admitted to the hospital again earlier this week. The actress had been diagnosed with anal cancer in September of 2006, and she battled against the rare disease for three years with the support of O’Neal, 68, and her son Redmond, who is 24 and currently in rehab jail.
O’Neal was with Fawcett when she went through radiation and chemotherapy treatments, and in February 2007 the actress was told she was free of cancer. However, in late spring the same year she was told that the cancer had returned. After going through many ineffective treatments in the US, the actress went to Germany in September of 2007 for alternative cancer therapies. Craig Nevius, one of her friend, said that Fawcett was discouraged by the treatments, and it was heartbreaking for the cancer to return after all that she had already gone through.
As Fawcett’s death spread through the media, and many celebrities have given their condolences to the family and talked highly of the actress on twitter.