Tanya Roberts is still alive despite reports of her death, rep says
Actress Tanya Roberts is reportedly still alive, in line with a brand new assertion from her publicist. The information comes in the future after that very same rep, Mike Pingel, knowledgeable the media of her demise.
Roberts, a former Bond woman and That ‘70s Show star, was apparently hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Dec. 24 after collapsing at her home. Pingel told the Associated Press she passed away on Sunday after being on a ventilator. No cause of death was given, but he said it was not due to COVID-19.
Now, Pingel tells TMZ and Los Angeles’s ABC7 that Roberts is not lifeless, however stays hospitalized. A supervisor for Roberts confirms to Entertainment Weekly the 65-year-old actress is alive.
According to TMZ, Pingel was knowledgeable of the actress’s passing by her home accomplice, Lance. In Sunday’s press launch, Pingel even included the next quote attributed to Lance: “As I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes.” Pingel says Lance received a name on Monday morning from the hospital that Roberts was not lifeless. Pingel additionally notes Lance believed Roberts had died.
It’s unclear how the confusion occurred. Yahoo Entertainment has reached out to Roberts’s reps for clarification, however didn’t instantly obtain responses.
Roberts’s most notable film function is within the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill. More lately, she’s finest identified for enjoying Donna Pinciotti’s mother, Midge, on That 70’s Show from 1998 to 2004. She additionally starred within the fifth and closing season of Charlie’s Angeles with different TV credit together with The Love Boat, Silk Stalkings, Fantasy Island, The Blues Brothers Animated Series and Barbershop.
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