Farrah Fawcett Breaks Her Silence...
Farrah Fawcett publicly battles terminal anal cancer, tabloids continue to clamor for the latest information about the 62-year-old's condition as the television icon fights to protect her privacy and patient rights.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times from August, but held at Fawcett's request until now, the actress said that the gravity of her struggle with anal cancer was exacerbated by having to endure it under public scrutiny.
Fawcett said she had long suspected tabloids were getting a constant flow of information on her condition from inside the UCLA Medical Center, the hospital where she was being treated.
"When Farrah would see an eye doctor, there would be a tabloid report she was going blind; when she got a pap smear, they'd say she was having a hysterectomy,"So when Fawcett's doctor told her that her cancer had returned in 2007, she deliberately withheld the news from her friends and family in order to prove that someone from the hospital was leaking information.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times from August, but held at Fawcett's request until now, the actress said that the gravity of her struggle with anal cancer was exacerbated by having to endure it under public scrutiny.Fawcett said she had long suspected tabloids were getting a constant flow of information on her condition from inside the UCLA Medical Center, the hospital where she was being treated.
"When Farrah would see an eye doctor, there would be a tabloid report she was going blind; when she got a pap smear, they'd say she was having a hysterectomy,"So when Fawcett's doctor told her that her cancer had returned in 2007, she deliberately withheld the news from her friends and family in order to prove that someone from the hospital was leaking information.
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