Speaking up about Farrah Fawcett's latest health condition, Ryan O'Neal says she currently is staying in bed and has been visited by some of her celebrity friends.
- May 8, 2009
AceShowbiz - People magazine has an exclusive interview with Ryan O'Neal about the latest condition of his longtime partner Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling anal cancer since 2006. "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," he reveals.
Providing a closer look into Farrah's physic, Ryan says, "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." He continues saying that some of Farrah's celeb friends have visited her, including her "Charlie's Angels" co-stars, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson.
Speaking of their son Redmond James O'Neal, who currently is imprisoned for a violation of his parole stemming from drug charges, Ryan claims "Farrah doesn't know Redmond's in trouble." He goes on telling People, "Redmond is terrified for his mother. 'I don't want to be in jail and have some guard tell me she is gone,' he said to me. I told him, 'She's rebounding.' I lied to him. I lie to her. It's the best thing." Redmond was granted temporary release from jail over last month to pay a visit to his ailing mother. He, in the meantime, is awaiting transfer to a lockdown rehab facility.
Ryan then tells People about his current role as Farrah's caretaker, saying "It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy." He adds, "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'".
However, "Farrah has never, ever talked about how unfair it is," Ryan claims. "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."
Ryan's tell-all interview about Farrah's cancer battle is on the new issue of People, which will hit newsstands on Friday, May 8.
