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After a 29-Year Courtship, Ryan O’Neal And Farrah Fawcett To Wed

By Evil Beet Gossip • on June 22, 2009

If you’ve been proposing to your girlfriend for almost 30 years, and she’s only now agreed to it because she’s hooked up to a morphine drip, that could be considered somewhat ego-bruising. Not to Ryan O’Neal, though.

Yeah — Ryan and Farrah Fawcett are getting married. I thought these two married and divorced years ago, but apparently not. O’Neal was interviewed by Barbara Walters in a 20/20 episode that will air this Friday, and spoke of his proposal to Farrah: “I’ve asked her to marry me, again, and she’s agreed. I used to ask her to marry me all the time. But … it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked about it.”

It’s actually really sad. Now that Farrah is battling terminal cancer, they probably have a whole new perspective on life. Back in May, Ryan appeared on NBC News and told Meredith Viera, “I know this, that in the last two years I loved her more than I’ve ever loved her – ever. She’s so much more of a woman … powerful, courageous, fearless and all those adjectives. And I look at her with awe.”

No date has been set at this time. Ryan said they will marry when Farrah is physically able to either say the word “yes,” or nod her head.