14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since reports about her condition deteriorating started to surface a couple of weeks back, former “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett has kept silent on the subject. Now, for the first time in many months, the actress is speaking out about her battle with anal cancer, as well as about what it meant to lose her right to privacy, violated by someone from the hospital staff, as the New York Daily News can confirm.
Farrah, who is said to be in very poor shape right now, with on-and-off longtime partner confirming that she’s currently on IV and her treatment “has pretty much ended,” is finally addressing the issue of how it was like to have her disease plastered on the pages of all magazines. Struggling with cancer is not something she would have wanted the public to know about her, Farrah says. However, the tragic picture the tabloids painted of her pained her more than the fact that fans learned of her disease.
“It’s much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope. I’m a private person. I’m shy about people knowing things. And I’m really shy about my medical [care].” Fawcett tells Times Online, as cited by the Daily News. Having a nurse on the staff at the hospital she was admitted leak false info on her to the tabloids was even more painful, the actress explains, because it made her fans think poorly of her when all she wanted to do was to be an inspiration.
“God, I would never say something like that.” Farrah says of a headline that ran in December 2006 and that read, “Farrah Fawcett Begs: Let Me Die.” “To think that people who did look up to me and felt positive because I was going through it too and yet I was strong… it just negated all that.” she says. Despite all this and the fact that doctors have ceased her cancer treatment, as O’Neil revealed last week, the actress has not yet lost all hope. “I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.” the star says in the same interview.
“Farrah’s Story,” a two-hour documentary shot at the actress' request to show her fans and other cancer sufferers her courageous battle with cancer, will air on NBC this Friday, May 15, from 9-11 p.m. ET.