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By The Washington Post 
6h ago
Sonia Rao
Actress Tanya Roberts is still alive, according to her publicist, Mike Pingel, who had told the media that she had died.
Roberts, 65, is hospitalized with an unspecified illness. Pingel told The Washington Post Monday night that he had confirmed his death Sunday due to a “miscommunication” involving hospital staff and his longtime partner, Lance O’Brien.
“They called him to come because she was passing away, they thought, and then he went and saw her, that’s how it happened,” Pingel said.
“The phone rang at 10 in the morning this morning, and it was the hospital that said yes, she was still alive and in the ICU, and that she had not died yesterday.”
Pingel added that O’Brien – Roberts’s partner for 18 years who had been “very distraught” – was the one who originally informed the publicist of his alleged death.
The Associated Press wrote an obituary based on information relayed by Pingel, who said Roberts had been admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after collapsing at her home. Earlier Monday, The Post published that story online, supplemented with additional biographical details.
Roberts, the daughter of a fountain pen salesman, was born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx on October 15, 1955. She modeled and landed minor roles in New York before coming to Hollywood in the late 1970s.
He replaced Shelley Hack in the final season of the television series “Charlie’s Angels” and went on to appear in several fantastic adventure films.
Among Roberts’s most prominent roles was geologist Stacey Sutton, Roger Moore’s James Bond love interest in the 1985 film “A View to a Kill.” In the late 1990s, she appeared on “That ’70s Show” as the mother of Laura Prepon’s character Donna.
Roberts remained in the ICU Monday night, according to Pingel.
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