14 DAY TRIAL // Coming to confirm reports that screen siren Farrah Fawcett is slowly losing the battle against anal cancer, longtime on-and-off partner Ryan O’Neal says in a new interview that she’s no longer receiving treatment for the disease. Moreover, the actor paints a painful and sad, yet peaceful picture of what is believed to be Fawcett’s final moments, as Reuters can confirm.
According to the “Love Story” star, Farrah is now at home, bed-ridden and being sustained with IVs. She’s not sick all the time, O’Neal says, but spends most of her days sitting quietly in her bed or watching TV. The cancer treatment has been stopped and she has lost all her blonde hair that once made her so famous that she even got a hairdo named after her, “The Farrah.”
“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.” O’Neal says for People magazine, as quoted by Reuters. “The hair is gone. Her famous hair. I have it at home. She didn’t care. I rub her head. It’s kind of fun, actually, this great, tiny little head. How she carried all that hair I’ll never know. She doesn’t have a vanity about it.” the actor says about how Farrah lost all of her gorgeous hair that once attracted millions of fans, especially women.
Seeing his true love slowly fading away is heartbreaking, O’Neal says in the same interview. He doesn’t know how to act or how to be around Farrah, whom he knows will not be with him for much longer now, yet, at the same time, he’s extremely proud of how well she fought this difficult battle, with such grace and dignity. It made him fall in love with her all over again, and appreciate her even more than before, the actor explains.
“The news started to get darker and darker and darker. The hope started to fade. But not for Farrah. She continued fighting. There was always a courage there, and a quiet dignity. Farrah never changed.” O’Neal says of how the actress reacted when she was told her cancer had returned and she was to start chemotherapy again. “I fell in love with her all over again because of how she handled this. [Still] I just don’t know how to play this one [this part]. I won’t know this world without her. It’s a love story. I can’t hear a song, I can’t pass places that we were together, without being stabbed in the heart. 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’.” Ryan says for the same magazine.
The People interview comes one week ahead of the two-hour documentary titled “Farrah’s Story,” that will air on NBC on May 15, 9-11 p.m. ET.