That’s a grave insult.
Farrah Fawcett’s headstone at a celebrity-filled cemetery in Los Angeles has the name of late actor Ryan O’Neal added to it, but friends say she didn’t want it.
“This is a travesty,” said Craig Nevius, Farrah’s friend and producer of the 2005 reality show “Chasing Farrah” and the 2009 documentary “Farrah’s Story” about her battle with cancer.
“Farrah wanted to be cremated first. She was very specific about it. She didn’t want to be a tourist attraction. She didn’t want to be buried and was buried with Ryan. “If she saw this, she would pick up something heavy and throw it at Ryan,” Nevius told the Post.
Some of Ms. Fawcett’s friends said Ms. O’Neal, who died in December at age 82 from congestive heart failure, remained in her radiant memory during her final months as she was dying of cancer. It is said that he manipulated it so that he would be bathed in it forever. Tourists come to take a look.
Fawcett’s large gravestone in Westwood Village Memorial Park has remained strangely blank, except for her name at the top, since her death from anal cancer in 2009 at the age of 62.
Even more bizarrely, Fawcett’s birth and death dates were not added until after the names of her on-and-off lovers were added. his Late last month, the date of birth and death were carved into the stone.
“It was as if he was the more important person, when in fact it was the opposite,” Nevius said.
“It may have been a great love story at first, and he was certainly charming, but there was always a monster coming out. This is all because he believed she was his and that she was just like in the movies.” It’s making the world think it’s a beautiful love story.”
O’Neal’s biggest hits were in the 1970s. “love story,” In the film, he played a Harvard student who falls in love with Radcliffe’s girl, played by Ali MacGraw, but Radcliffe dies of a blood disease.
He has been famously estranged at times from his first marriage with two of his four children, actresses Tatum O’Neal, 60, and Griffin O’Neal, 59.
His long-troubled son, Redmond, is currently in a state hospital in California.
His other son, Patrick, 56, a Los Angeles sportscaster, is loyal to his father and criticizes negative stories about him.
Patrick has long maintained that Farrah was the love of Ryan’s life.
Ms. Fawcett’s former personal assistant, Mike Pingel, and her friend, actress Michelle Lintell, told the Post that they were angry and heartbroken when they saw the tombstone with Ms. O’Neal’s name on it.
“It was everything Ryan wanted, not Farrah,” Pingel said, calling the “Charlie’s Angels” star “a great boss and a great friend.”
“Farrah’s great love was not Ryan, but (her son) Redmond. Her mother was cremated and she told me she wanted that too. She wanted peace. It wasn’t about being in a celebrity cemetery.”
Lintel became emotional as she described the time she helped Fawcett pack for her final trip to Germany. So Fawcett tried various cancer treatments to no avail.
She told the Post that she witnessed several disturbing moments during the last months of Fawcett’s life. One time, she said, Mr. Fawcett was trying to stuff documents into a storage room in a closet and he didn’t want Ryan to see them.
Like Nevius, Rintell was not allowed to see Farah during the last few months of her life, when O’Neill is said to have taken over.
“He could have two opinions about her,” Lintel said.
“She was a big star, but he resented it and tried to control her through his son. The only reason she stayed connected to Ryan was because of Redmond. If she stayed with him She would have said yes to marrying him if she wanted to be buried in him. She didn’t. She deserved a better life than the way he treated her. is.”
