Actress Tanya Roberts’ aide and partner now says she is still alive – after announcing her death on Sunday, according to reports.
The day after releasing a statement saying the 65-year-old ex-Bond girl had died, her representative Mike Pingel on Monday made the impressive admission to TMZ that he was wrong.
The representative said Roberts’ longtime partner, Lance O’Brien, informed him of his death at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She has been hospitalized there since Christmas Eve, when she passed out at home after walking the dog, Pingel said.
Pingel told the agency that O’Brien received a call from the hospital on Monday morning saying that Roberts was really alive.
It is not clear how the error occurred.
Inside Edition on Monday said one of its reporters was interviewing O’Brien when he suddenly got a call saying that the actress from “That 70s Show” was alive.
“Now are you telling me that she is alive?” O’Brien says in a video published by the vehicle.
“The hospital is telling me that she is alive. They are calling me from the ICU team ”, he adds.
The hospital staff had previously told him that Roberts “had no hope of living,” said O’Brien.
Although the star did not have COVID-19, it was placed on a fan because it was struggling to breathe, according to O’Brien – who said he was not allowed to visit Roberts because of the coronavirus protocols, even what he thought was her final moments.
“While I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes,” he told TMZ on Sunday. “I was able to see your beautiful eyes one last time. Tanya had the most beautiful eyes. ”
Neither Pingel nor O’Brien immediately returned messages from The Post on Monday.
In addition to her role on “That 70s Show” as Donna Pinciotti’s mother, Midge, Roberts was known for her role in the 1985 007 film “A View to a Kill”.
The New York native also appeared on the TV show “Charlie’s Angels” in his last season in 1980-1981.
She was previously married to actor Barry Roberts, who died at age 60 in 2006.
Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy