One thing Farrah Fawcett would have appreciated during the course of her very public, 2½-year-battle with cancer: privacy. But that is the one thing she never received.
“It’s much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope,” says the terminally ill star, 62. “It was stressful. I was terrified of getting the chemo. It’s not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.”
Speaking to a reporter for the first time since she was diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006, the former Charlie’s Angels icon granted Charles Ornstein, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, an interview – one she gave in August and which the newspaper published Monday, in anticipation of Farrah’s Story, a two-hour NBC documentary Fawcett filmed with her friend Alana Stewart. It airs this Friday.
Her harshest words were saved for the often-exaggerated stories about her illness that were published by a supermarket tabloid, a situation that caused her, she says, to establish a sting operation at the UCLA Medical Center to catch snooping employees who were leaking information about her condition to the publication.
Reacting to a December 2006 story headlined, “Farrah Begs: ‘Let Me Die,’ ” Fawcett, speaking in her home, told the Times: “God, I would never say something like that. To think that people who did look up to me and felt positive because I was going through it too and yet I was strong … it just negated all that.” (more…)
Justin Timberlake joked about sleeping with ex Britney Spears on his weekend appearance on Saturday Night Live.
The 28-year-old singer played an immigrant named Cornelius Timberlake and jokingly predicted the future for his family.
“I’d like to think that at first, he’ll date a popular female singer,” he said (watch above). “Publicly, they’ll claim to be virgins. But privately, he’ll hit it.”
Timberlake and Andy Samberg also created another digital short that picked up where Emmy-winning “D–k in a Box” left off.
The clip, “Motherlover,” starred Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson. Watch below.
Oprah Winfrey’s Montecito home is being evacuated after the Southern California wildfires have come within a few miles of her coastal ranch, a source tells Usmagazine.com.
The source tells Us that movers arrived at the talk show host’s $50 million mansion, which is located just outside of Santa Barbara, and have been packing her belongings to prepare for the evacuation as the blaze continues to spread.
Winfrey was not at the house on Friday, as she was taping The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago.
“The fires are nearby, but her house is not within the mandatory evacuation area,” A rep for Winfrey tells Us. “We’re continuing to monitor.”
Downtown Montecito is currently “under warning,” Michelle Phillips, an employee at the Jesusita Fire County Emergency Call Center tells Us.
“Residents should be ready to evacuate their homes at a moment’s notice,” Phillips says, adding that evacuation is mandatory at this point. “The [distance of the fire] can change very quickly, which is why residents are strongly advised to evacuate now while they still can.”
Dry air and high winds have frustrated efforts to control the wildfire, which began Tuesday and has driven more than 30,500 people from their homes on the edge of Santa Barbara. It has cost more than $2.6 million to battle, according to Bloomberg.com. Only 10 percent of the fire is contained and that it has damaged 75 homes so far.
Winfrey purchased the 6-bedroom property — which covers 42 acres and is 23,000 square feet — in 2001. Michael Douglas and Rob Lowe also live in the area.
