Farrah Fawcett, Charlie’s Angel, Remembered

In all the hoopla over Michael Jackson’s surprise passing, I think it’s important to also remember and acknowledge that brave Farrah Fawcett passed away yesterday as well. Fans have been leaving their tributes to the most famous “Angel” of all at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well. Additionally, her family and friends have released statements of their own concerning her passing:
“She’s gone. She now belongs to the ages,” Ryan O’Neal tells PEOPLE, also confirming that she received the last rites of the Catholic Church. “She’s now with her 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.” Though O’Neal recently said that he and Fawcett had planned to wed, they did not tie the knot. “There just wasn’t time, and Farrah wasn’t in any condition to do it,” says O’Neal. Friends and family plan to honor Fawcett with a funeral service at a Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles in the next few days. Like so much about Fawcett’s life – including her bumpy relationship with O’Neal – her heroic struggle to beat the disease was closely followed by her legion of fans. “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 … Redmond was not there at Fawcett’s side when she died, but spoke to his mother on the phone and told her “how much he loved her and asked her to please forgive him that he was so very, very sorry,” O’Neal tells PEOPLE.

This brave, brave woman fought cancer to the very end … her struggle, unfortch, is being overshadowed by MJ’s sudden death so I do want to take one more moment to remember and pay tribute to Farrah Fawcett. I watched the 20/20 special on her life on ABC ….

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Farrah Fawcett, Charlie’s Angel, Remembered