Charlie's Angels actress Farrah Fawcett has died. She was 62.
The five-time Golden Globe-nominated star passed away on this morning at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Her longtime partner Ryan O'Neal and best friend Alana Stewart were by her bedside when she passed away. Her son Redmond, who is serving a jail sentence for drug charges, was not present.
Fawcett, who turned her battle with cancer into the documentary series A Wing and a Prayer, suffered another health setback in April this year (09) when it emerged the cancer had spread to her liver. The extent of her illness was discovered during a stay in a Los Angeles hospital in early April as she underwent treatment for complications resulting from an undisclosed medical procedure.
O'Neal recently revealed he had proposed to Fawcett as she fought for her life and that she had accepted, but the couple never made it down the aisle. It emerged yesterday that Fawcett was nearing the end of her cancer battle and had a Catholic priest read her her last rites as family and friends prepared for the worst.
She is survived by O'Neal and their son Redmond, now 24.
