Farrah Fawcett Wanted to Live With Cher During Her Final Days. Here’s Why She Didn’t.
Cher and Farrah Fawcett became fast friends after Fawcett appeared on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the 1970s. But, as Cher wrote in her new memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part 1, Fawcett’s dying wish to was to stay at the singer/actress’ home — a wish that was blocked by Fawcett’s longtime romantic partner, Ryan O’Neal.
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Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer and sadly succumbed to the disease on June 25, 2009, at the age of 62. Cher writes in her memoir, “When Farrah was sick, she would ask if she could spend her last days in my home because she wanted to see the ocean. Ryan denied her, saying, ‘If she wants to see the ocean, she could stay at my house.'” At the time, Cher had an oceanside home in Malibu.
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Fawcett and O’Neal were on-again, off-again partners who shared a son, Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal, born in 1985. The pair reunited in 2001 after O’Neal was diagnosed with leukemia. They remained by each other’s sides through both their illnesses, and in 2023, O’Neal said of Fawcett, “I loved her with all my heart.”
In her later years, Fawcett dated Longhorn football star Greg Lott when she was not with O’Neal. Lott also claims that O’Neal kept him from seeing Fawcett during her final days.
Leaving you on a happier note, do you remember this fun skit that Cher and Fawcett did on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour?
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