After widespread reports that actress Tanya Roberts had died, her longtime boyfriend took a big shock from the hospital during an interview for Inside Edition – she was still alive. The former Bond girl and “Charlie’s Angels” star suddenly passed out on Christmas Eve after walking her two dogs.
Newspapers across the country published news of his death. And while Steven Fabian from Inside Edition was interviewing his boyfriend, Lance O’Brien, he answered the phone.
“Now, are you telling me that she is alive?” O’Brien said before he burst into tears.
“The hospital is telling me that she is alive. They are calling me from the ICU team, ”said O’Brien.
O’Brien said Roberts did not have COVID-19, but due to hospital protocols, he was not allowed to stand beside her at Cedars Sinai Medical Center to comfort her until what he thought was the final hours on Sunday.
“When she saw me and I was there, I saw her eyes open. I felt good. I said, ‘Hey, her eyes are opening. Her eyes are opening. ‘They told me this is just a reflection, ”said O’Brien.
He added that the hospital staff said she “had no hope of living”.
Roberts used to talk to fans during live chats on Facebook. “I have basically been walking my dog and doing my exercises at home,” she said during a chat on December 19.
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