Ryan O’Neal discusses Farrah’s final days
The story Ryan O’Neal told to PEOPLE about his longtime partner Farrah Fawcett is a bit more dire than previously indicated. He gave a darker picture of what look to be the actress’s final days.
O’Neal said that the anal cancer long ago spread to other parts of Fawcett’s body, including her liver.
“She stays in bed now. The doctors see that she is comfortable. Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended,” said Ryan. A documentary of her battle is set to air on NBC on May 15, made by her friend, Alana Stewart.
“It was never meant to be a documentary,” said Stewart. “Farrah just took her little hand-held camera to the doctor one day.” That was the day her doctors told her the cancer had returned. Fawcett took the camera running in hopes of documenting what cancer victims go trough.
“She wanted to tell the truth. There were times I’d stop filming because I thought it was too personal and she said, ‘This is what people go through with cancer. Film it.’ So I would,” said Stewart.
Over the last two years, Fawcett headed to Germany six times for treatment from Dr. Ursula Jacob of the Alpenpark Clinic. But Fawcett’s condition gradually worsened.
Now, Fawcett has lost her hair and stays in bed and takes visitors, including her “Charlie’s Angels” costars. Her son, Redmond, visited her for three hours on April 25 for (possibly) final goodbye.
In a jail-issued jumpsuit and in shackles, Redmond is seen in the NBC documentary climbing into his sleeping mother’s bed and crying. “Oh my gosh, my gosh,” he said as he hugged the frail figure next to him. “Oh, my gosh.”
His legal troubles have been kept from her, but Redmond knows that it’s possible he’ll hear of his mother’s death from a prison guard, though his father keeps much of the truth quiet for both.
“I told him, ‘She’s rebounding.’ I lied to him. I lie to her. It’s the best thing.” Redmond is now awaiting transfer to a lockdown rehab facility while his family is dealing with her illness.
“It’s a love story. I just don’t know how to play this one. I won’t know this world without her … I can’t hear a song, I can’t pass places that we were together, without being stabbed in the heart,” he says. “A week ago Farrah said to me, ‘Am I going to make it?’ I said, ‘Yes, you’ll make it. And if you don’t, I’ll go with you.’
“Farrah has never, ever talked about how unfair it is. But I’ve thought about it. She may have thought to herself that she had been chosen to do this, that some higher power had put her in this situation. Because then there would be something positive to come out of it. And maybe that’s true. But I’m just not so sure it’s something positive for Farrah.”
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