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Actress Farrah Fawcett - Source: Reuters
Actress Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer for almost
three years, has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital, according
to news reports.
The 62-year-old former star of Charlie's Angels was hospitalized on
Thursday, according to People magazine.
Celebrity gossip website Radaronline, which broke the news, quoted
sources as saying the actress was unconscious.
The hospital was not identified. A Fawcett spokesman did not return
a call seeking comment on Sunday.
Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006.
Four months later, she declared herself cancer-free, only to have the disease return in May 2007.
Fawcett travelled to Germany for alternative treatment and
documented her experiences, footage of which she shared with
entertainment television shows in early 2008.
The Texas native rose to fame through an iconic pin-up poster for
which she posed flirtatiously in a red bathing suit.
In 1976, TV producer Aaron Spelling cast Fawcett for Charlie's
Angels, in which she played Jill Munroe, the tanned, glamorous
undercover detective with tousled blonde hair.
Starring alongside brunette actresses Jaclyn Smith and Kate
Jackson, Fawcett was the hit show's top attraction, but she quit at
the end of its first season.
After being sued for breach of contract, she made a few guest
appearances in subsequent years.
The actress sought to downplay her sex-symbol status through
meatier roles in the 1980s.
She earned critical acclaim for her performance as a domestic
violence survivor in 1984's The Burning Bed, for which she received
the first of three Emmy nominations.
Separately, her son with former long-time boyfriend Ryan O'Neal was
arrested on Sunday for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into a Los
Angeles-area jail.
Redmond O'Neal, 24, who has a long history of drug arrests, was detained at a facility in Santa Clarita, while about to visit an inmate, said the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
He was being held on US$25,000 bail.
