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The BOND girl’s devastated husband, Tanya Roberts, revealed that the actress is still alive “but not for long” after doctors told him she had died, according to The Sun, exclusively.
It was widely reported on Sunday that the 65-year-old actress had passed away after her representative spoke to various media outlets, but her 18-year-old husband has now claimed it was an impressive mix-up at the hospital.
Tanya’s stunned husband, Lance O’Brien, told The Sun exclusively: “She is still with us, but not for long.”
Lance said an emotional farewell to his wife of nearly two decades after she fell ill over Christmas and was admitted to Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
“I turned around and she completely passed out,” he said. “I thought that was it, that he was not going to recover.
“So when I got off the elevator I was distraught, lost, completely baffled.
“There was no one there to guide me. I called his publicist Mike Pingel and told him I had just fired Tanya. “
Subsequently, reports circulated that he had died.
Lance believed that Tanya had passed away, but incredibly he told The Sun that he received a call Monday afternoon from the hospital where she is being treated, saying that she is still alive.
In a deeply moving interview outside the house where he and Tanya shared their lives for more than 15 years, he said he told the caller from Cedars, “She’s dead, what do you mean?
“They said, ‘No, it’s not. She’s still alive, she’s here. ‘
When asked directly about the alleged confusion, a Cedars Sinai spokesperson told The Sun: “Due to patient confidentiality, we cannot confirm or deny that someone is a patient at Cedars Sinai.”
Tanya’s husband said he “didn’t know” who to blame for the mistake.
“If I point my finger, there will be three pointing backwards,” he said.
“I don’t know who to blame. I blame this pandemic for a lot of that. “
Fighting back tears, Lance said he can’t go back to the hospital to say goodbye to her anymore because he wants her to die with dignity and not be kept on life support just so he can get special treatment to see her.
He said Tanya has an unspecified illness that doctors have told her started with a urinary tract infection, insisting that she has not had Covid.
“Today the doctors told me that it is better to let her die and end her life,” he said.
“She will never be the same again, the tubes inside are very uncomfortable.
“His kidneys are gone, his liver is so depleted, his gallbladder is so depleted.
“She also has a terrible blood infection. Doctors say it started with a urinary tract infection.
“Doctors say there is no way she will ever be the same again. She always told me that she didn’t want to be an invalid.
“She said that if it got to this stage, it would finish for me. It’s a challenge and a half, I have to tell you.
“I can’t go back to the hospital, I would have to get special permission.
“I could already look deep into her eyes and they told me they wanted to give her dignity by leaving.
He continued: “I’ve told them to do it, not to keep her on life support just so they can see her. I’ve already seen her, I have to hug her.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do, it breaks my heart.
“I work outside of our home and we hadn’t parted ways in 15 years. When we are separated, we have separation anxiety.
“I had to shut down Howard Stern because every time we got in the car we would hear him. I can not listen to it “.
Explaining how the actress and model, who appeared in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill alongside Roger Moore, fell ill, Lance said: “The day before I got sick, I was walking in the hills here.
“She walked four miles every day. He was very fit, he walked all the time.
“I thought I would be the first person to check it out, not her.
“His mother lived to be 95 and had good genes in her body. He exercised a minimum of five days a week.
“On Christmas Eve, he said he was not feeling well and thought he had Covid.
“We had hardly left the house in ten months, so I said, ‘How are you sure you have Covid?’
“But she insisted, so I made an appointment to test her locally at 1pm the next day.
“But at four in the morning he tried to get out of bed to go to the bathroom, but he fell and collapsed on the floor.”
Lance said he tried to lift her but she couldn’t control her legs or arms.
“I called 911 and they took her to Cedars, but I was not allowed to visit her,” she said.
“Her Covid test was negative and she was admitted to the ICU. Visitors were not allowed.
“But I talk to her on the phone and then they tell me she’s on ‘half oxygen’, 50 percent, which I thought was good since it was 90 percent before.
“They told me it was a very encouraging sign. So I guess he’ll be home in a day or two.
“The next day, there is more good news.
“They said you might have to have a colostomy bag when you leave the hospital on your kidney for four to six weeks, but they can be managed by me and in outpatients.”
But it was at this point, he said, that the confusion began.
“I don’t know if you know what it’s like there, but every day the same people don’t treat the same people, so there’s no one you talk to who has a frame of reference.
“So they tell me that she will not get out of this, it is the end of her life and if you are going to come see her, come see her.
“It was driving me crazy. It was terrible, terrible.
“I go into the hospital, I see her and she opens her eyes. I was like, ‘My gosh, I could see her eyes one more time, she opened her eyes.’
“She couldn’t speak. But I could see his eyes looking at me there and it was amazing.
“Later they told me it could have been a spasm or a reflex.”
Lance believed she was dead and called her publicist, adding: “She was all over the national news then, but she was still alive.”
Tanya’s representative, Mike, told the media on Sunday that she had passed away the weekend after “collapsing” on Christmas Eve.
She claimed to have spoken to her husband, who said she kept him in the hospital “one last time.”
In addition to writing on his Facebook page to alert fans, Mike also sent out an official press release alleging that the star had died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
“I am devastated,” he said at the time. “She was bright and beautiful and I feel like a light has been taken from me.
“He was the sweetest person you have ever met and he had a huge heart.”
Tanya’s rep added, “She loved her fans and I don’t think she realized how much she meant to them.”
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