The stories surrounding the death of Tanya Roberts have been very confusing. She was widely and mistakenly reported dead on Sunday before news outlets discovered she was still alive. However, sadly she passed away Monday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Roberts was best known for her roles in That ’70s Show, Charlie’s Angels, and the James Bond movie A View To a Kill.
Roberts was hospitalized on Christmas Eve when she collapsed in her home. Her longtime-partner Lance O’Brien called 911 to take her to the hospital, where she ended up in the ICU on a ventilator. On Sunday night, doctors called him to the hospital for what they said was an “end of life situation,” O’Brien told Inside Edition Monday morning.
When he visited Roberts Sunday night, he saw her eyes roll back and she passed out. He believed she had died and told Roberts’ representative Mike Pingel, who mistakenly reported this to news outlets on Sunday.
O’Brien learned Roberts was still alive during his interview with Inside Edition the next morning. During the interview, he exclaimed, “Now you’re telling me that she’s alive? Thank the Lord. Thank God.”
However, Roberts ended up passing away Monday night after a difficult decision was made to take her off life support. “They told me all of her bodily functions, her organs, are disintegrated and she could never come back to being the same,” O’Brien told The Post of his decision.
Roberts’ representative told People her cause of death was “a urinary tract infection which spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and then blood stream.” While most UTIs are relatively mild and easily treated, they can be dangerous and even deadly once they spread to the kidneys.
Roberts was 65 years old.