On Sunday night, there were reports that Tanya Roberts passed away at the age of 65. Then yesterday, her boyfriend, Lance O’Brien, found out during an interview with Inside Edition that she was still alive. Today, O’Brien told TMZ that Cedars Sinai called and told him that she did not make it.
What happened because this all so weird? O’Brien tells Page Six that he called her publicist after he saw Roberts for the last time. “I say, ‘I just said goodbye to Tanya, and I got to see her beautiful eyes one last time.’ And after that, I’m just blubbering,” O’Brien recalled. That is why the publicist assumed that she died. It wasn’t until O’Brien got the phone call the next day that he found out she was still alive for a few more hours.
O’Brien also clarified what happened in the days leading up to her death. He says she started having breathing and intestinal issues on December 23rd. She went to sleep. Then the actress woke up at 4a, fell out of bed, and could not get up. That is when she was rushed to the hospital.
When he was there, doctors explained that she had a bad UTI that mixed with her Hepatitis C, and wreaked havoc on her body. “What happened was her kidneys degraded, her liver degraded, then her gall bladder degraded, then she got a blood infection in her entire body.’” O’Brien said. At that point, there was nothing they could do for her. She was taken off of life support and passed away last night.
