A Real "Angel"

Well, I cried for two straight hours tonight watching Farrah's Story. Like many people my age, I grew up watching her on TV both in her commercials and on Charlies's Angels. She was only on that show for one season yet it seems like it was more than that. This picture is of the poster that was so popular in the 70's.

In watching the story documenting her fight with cancer, I'm still amazed by her beauty. With no makeup on in an ugly hospital gown, she's still Farrah. Just to see her in all that pain with the rosary beads in her hands and her positive attitude throughout is truly a testament to the kind of person she truly is.

I remember when she left Charlie's Angels because she felt it was too much fluff and she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress. Everyone laughed until she established herself with roles in The Burning Bed and Extremities, playing a battered wife and a rape victim respectively.

Her personal life has not been an easy one. Her relationship with the love of her life, Ryan O'Neal, has been a bit volatile at times although it is obvious throughout this documentary that the love they share is real and he has been with her on this journey every step of the way. Her son Redmond is hooked on drugs and is in prison while she's dying of cancer. She doesn't even know this. Her ninety year old father has already lost one daughter to cancer and now faces losing another. They showed clips of her visiting him and he is so sweet that it just broke my heart.

And thoughout all of this, her friend Alana Stewart has been with her on every trip to Germany filming this entire ordeal. Everyone should have a friend like this in their life and it makes me feel good that Farrah has this. I feel like I'm talking about her like she is my friend but, after watching this documentary, I actually feel like she is. I want her to live although I think it is a foregone conclusion now that she won't survive this.

It's funny how life imitates art sometimes. In the 1980's Farrah Fawcett did many PSA's about cancer and now, almost thirty years later, she has become a victim. Ryan O'Neal is best known for his role in Love Story as he sat at the bedside of Ali MacGraw, as she was dying of cancer. Now he's doing the same thing all over again.

It's a comfort to know that Farrah is a very religious person and believes she is in God's hands. I can't imagine anything more comforting for her. But she just wants to live another day, see another rain and have some hope to have some more time here on earth.

So Farrah, you were once an angel and you still are....may you be here tomorrow and the tomorrow after that and the tomorrow after that. I so admire you.