Tanya Roberts RIP

[davidbeegah]

RIP Pretty Angel. She's the one who got me through Rifftrax Tourist Trap. i.e. I just gave up and looked at Tanya Roberts.

www.etonline.com/tanya-roberts-bond-girl-that-70s-show-star-dead-at-65-158508

[crowschmo]

Only 65. That's not necessarily old these days.

[Torgo]

For those looking to honor her with a riff, Roberts starred in Tourist Trap, which Rifftrax has available.

It was also the first movie featured on Shudder's Joe Bob Briggs revival The Last Drive-In.

[Torgo]

Hold the phone here. Apparently news sources are retracting it.

Honestly, after a year of death, it would be great for 2021 to start off with someone reported dead then screaming "F*** off, mortality" and then resurrecting like a boss. But from the sounds of things, it seems like she's still in serious condition.

[sol-survivor]

Um, oops?

[davidbeegah]

I'm not dead yet. I feel Happy. I'm Feeling Much Better. I Think I'll Go for a walk...

abc7.com/entertainment/tanya-roberts-still-alive-after-mistaken-belief-she-had-died-rep-says/9354423/

[continosbuckle]

How exactly does something like that happen? What did the distraught boyfriend say that led someone to conclude she had died?

Anyway, it's wonderful news. It's otherwise been a rough 13 months for female leads in Bond films. Auger, Blackman and Rigg all within 10 months of one another.

[Torgo]

Apparently her boyfriend was with her at the hospital and she was in such poor condition that he just said his goodbyes to her and was so distraught that he told her rep that she had passed and her rep released a statement about her passing.

Then while he was being interviewed about her passing, the boyfriend received a phone call from the hospital in the middle of the interview saying "Um...she's actually not dead."

Some sources I'm reading say she's still in poor shape, though most are keeping mum about her current condition.

[Torgo]

Roberts has officially passed.

www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/arts/television/tanya-roberts-dead.html

[sol-survivor]

Apparently it was a urinary tract infection. It must have gone septic on her pretty fast.

[mylungswereaching]

It may or may not have been a UTI that killed her. UTIs can be deadly. She was in the hospital in mid December with a UTI and released. She died shortly after walking her dogs. Sounds more like a stroke or heart attack to me. Women are less likely to have a heart attack then men but more likely to die from them because they don't tend to get the obvious elephant sitting on my chest feeling that men usually get. Women get more vague symptoms which feels like a lot of different things.

RIP Tanya.

[davidbeegah]

I hope this settles all of the confusion... Over the past few days.. Rest Well Pretty Lady..

Victoria Leigh Blum (October 15, 1955 – January 4, 2021), known professionally as Tanya Roberts, was an American actress, producer, and model. She was best known for playing Julie Rogers in the final season of the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels, Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, and as Midge Pinciotti in 81 episodes of That '70s Show from 1998 to 2004. On December 24, 2020, Roberts fell out of bed and could not get up, following intestinal pain and breathing difficulties that began on a hike the day before. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and was later placed on a ventilator. It was initially reported that Roberts died on January 3, 2021 after her partner, Lance O'Brien, told her manager that he had visited her in the hospital and "said goodbye". O'Brien later clarified that this was an end-of-life visit; he had not been permitted to see her during her hospitalization due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was invited to return when Roberts was taken off life support. She was critically ill from a urinary tract infection that entered her organs and bloodstream, leading to a blood infection made worse due to Roberts's history of hepatitis C. After the premature reports, O'Brien was informed by the hospital that she died in the evening of January 4, and confirmed this to the media on January 5.

[crowschmo]

Can you imagine the boyfriend thinking, "This is it.", and coming to grips with the fact she died, then getting the news she was still alive, THEN getting the news she did, if fact, pass away? Talk about an emotional roller coaster.

Weird turn of events.