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Beloved actress Tanya Roberts is still alive, her manager revealed just hours after he and her husband announced that she had died.
The representative, Mike Pingel, issued a press release Sunday saying that Roberts, who is best known for appearing opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond film A View To Kill, had died at age 65 on Saturday.
Pingel said Roberts was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve after collapsing at her home in the Hollywood Hills.
The representative said she learned of the tragic news of Roberts’ death through her husband Lance O’Brien, who claimed he visited her in hospital before she passed away.
As he held her in her last moments, he opened his eyes. I could see her beautiful eyes for the last time. Tanya had the most beautiful eyes, ‘O’Brien told TMZ.
But in a strange twist on Monday, Pingel told the tabloid that the hospital called O’Brien shortly after 10 a.m. and informed him that his wife was still alive.
Pingel offered little explanation for the confusion, simply saying that Lance “really believed that Tanya was dead.”
The representative also said Roberts’s condition is’ serious’ and told people: ‘Currently, he does not look good. Keep it in your prayers. ‘
DailyMail.com has reached out to Pingel and Cedars-Sinai for clarification.
Beloved actress Tanya Roberts is still alive, her manager revealed Monday, just hours after he and her husband announced that she had died. Roberts appears in 2017
The representative, Mike Pingel (he left with Roberts), issued a press release Sunday saying the actress had died at 65 on Saturday. But in a strange twist on Monday, Pingel announced that Roberts’ husband informed him that she was still alive.
Roberts is best known for appearing opposite Roger Moore as Stacey Sutton in the 1985 Bond film A View To Kill. He appears in a promotional photo for the film in 1984.
TMZ said it heard from multiple sources close to the family that O’Brien called them with the news of Roberts death on Sunday.
The outlet originally reported that Roberts collapsed after he returned home after walking his dog on December 24.
She was rushed to a hospital and placed on a ventilator, but “it never got better,” Pingel said, adding that her “death” was not related to COVID-19.
Pingel (left with Roberts) did not explain what caused the confusion about his health status
Before his collapse, insiders said Roberts appeared “perfectly healthy” and was participating in video chats with his fans.
In his original statement to TMZ, O’Brien said that he had not been allowed to visit his wife in the hospital due to coronavirus protocols, but that staff made an exception when her condition worsened on Saturday.
O’Brien’s statement suggested that he was with Roberts when she died, but apparently that was not the case.
It’s unclear when O’Brien and Roberts got married, but reports indicated that the couple lived together at their home in the Hollywood Hills.
Public records indicate it was the same house that Robert shared with her first husband, screenwriter Barry Roberts, who died in 2006. Tanya and Barry had been married for 32 years and had no children.
Roberts appeared to be healthy and in good spirits late last year. She appears with Pingel in a recent photo.
Roberts used to upload photos to Instagram, including a snapshot showing her wearing a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic as she signed fan photos.
In addition to being a Bond girl, Roberts starred in the fifth and final season of Charlie’s Angels between 1980 and 1981.
She is also famous for playing Midge Pinciotti on the hit comedy That 70s Show, opposite Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.
Roberts was born Victoria Leigh Blum in October 1955 in New York City, before beginning her modeling career in her teens.
She married Barry Roberts when she was just 19 years old in 1974 and began studying to become an actress at The Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen.
The leggy blonde made her film debut in 1975’s Forced Entry.
Roberts married screenwriter Barry Roberts in 1974. She was only 19 at the time. The couple appear together in 1981.
Roberts played geologist Stacey Sutton alongside Roger Moore (above together) in their seventh and final James Bond film in 1985.
Roberts was chosen from among 2,000 other actresses to replace Shelley Hack in the fifth and final season of Charlie’s Angels, which aired between 1980 and 1981. In the photo on the left.
In 1998, Roberts returned to the small screen to play Midge on That 70s Show. She appears in the first row second from the left. The show also starred Ashton Kutcher (rear second row from left) and Mila Kunis (front third row from left).
Roberts and her husband moved permanently to Los Angeles in 1977, which paid off in a big way three years later.
The beauty was chosen from among 2,000 other actresses to replace Shelley Hack in the fifth and final season of Charlie’s Angels, which aired between 1980 and 1981.
However, she became a worldwide sensation several years later, when she was elevated to ‘Bond girl’ status in 1985’s A View To A Kill.
In that film, she played the sultry geologist Stacey Sutton alongside Roger Moore in her seventh and final James Bond film.
Subsequently, Roberts continued to work regularly with roles in such films as Body Slam, Twisted Justice, Purgatory, and Legal Tender, which was written by her husband.
Roberts is best known for appearing opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond film A View To Kill (pictured)
Roberts and her husband, Barry, appear in 1985. Barry tragically passed away in 2006, leaving Roberts a widow after 32 years of marriage.
In 1998, she returned to the small screen to play Midge on That 70s Show.
The hit Fox comedy also starred Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama and Topher Grace.
She left the show in 2004 to care for her husband, who was terminally ill at the time. Tragically he passed away two years later.
Roberts did not appear in any more movies or television shows after the death of her first husband.
However, the beauty seemed to be healthy and in good spirits late last year.
She frequently posted photos to Instagram, including a snapshot showing her wearing a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic as she signed fan photos.
Roberts appears with his dogs in a photo shared on his Instagram page last year. He had taken one of his canines for a walk before returning to his Hollywood Hills home and collapsing.
Roberts played the sultry geologist Stacey Sutton in the hit spy thriller
