Farrah Fawcett’s secret relationship throughout cancer battle before tragic death
The Hollywood actress – who passed away aged 62 back in 2009 – was famously married to Lee Majors from 1973 until 1982
Farrah Fawcett was embroiled in a secret love affair in the final years of her life before she tragically passed away in 2009 after losing her battle to cancer.
The actress – who passed away aged 62, 11 years ago – was famously married to Lee Majors from 1973 until 1982 – with the Hollywood pair tying the knot 47 years ago today.
Farrah and Lee separated in 1979 and ultimately divorced in 1982. Still, Lee insisted the pair remained “in communication toward the end.”
But for Charlie’s Angels star Farrah it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows in her personal life, as an ex of hers has claimed she was involved in a deep affair with him despite being in a public relationship with another man at the time.
Farrah’s former flame Greg Lott, 73, first began dating the beauty queen when they both attended the University of Texas in the sixties.
Though they called it quits on their love after university, Greg has said the pair rekindled their relationship in 1998 and remained a couple for 11 years until she died from cancer in 2009.
While the late actress continued to be linked romantically to Ryan O’Neal in the years leading up to her tragic passing, Greg nonetheless claims he was actually the man in the shadow whom Farrah was truly in love with.
Opening up about his recollection of the so-called affair, Greg told ABC News in America back in 2013: “Farrah Fawcett and I reunited in a relationship, a loving, consensual one-on-one relationship. No other boyfriends. No other girlfriends.”
But the pair’s relationship had a spanner thrown in the works by Farrah’s actor boyfriend Ryan, whom Greg claims forbade him from seeing Farrah in her final days.
Greg claimed: “He kept me from seeing the love of my life before she died. Photos don’t make a relationship. I know what I had with her. He didn’t have that. He blew it.”
Although Farrah never actually tied the knot with Ryan during their public romance from 1979 until 1997, the pair did welcome their son Redmond together in 1975.
But despite their breakup – which took place more than a decade before Farrah’s death – Ryan remained a constant presence in the actress’s life.
Greg went on to claim to have years of handwritten notes between him and Farrah, as well as a photo he said Ryan sent him after the star’s death which was inscribed: “For Greg Lott, nobody wins. Peace.”
And when it was pointed out that Greg doesn’t actually have any pictures together with Farrah during their alleged “11-year romance”, Greg claims it was because he wanted to say out of the public eye.
He recalled: “I last spoke to Farrah late on the night of April 9 – two-and-a-half months before she died. She was preparing to come home from a bout of treatment at St John’s Hospital in Santa Monica
“She told me: ‘I’m coming home tomorrow. I love you and I will call you’.”
But he never heard from her again.
In desperation, he took a flight to her home in Los Angeles, California, but claims that when he got there, he was turned away at the door by Ryan.
He added: “I never got to say goodbye to Farrah. Ryan shut me out of her life.”
Speaking about what the late actress was like when they first laid eyes on one another in the sixties, Greg described the beauty queen as “a frisky palomino – all legs, teeth and spirit.”
He went on: “We were blind, crazy, in love. Farrah was my best friend and my inspiration.
“We fell in love with each other all those years ago and we never really stopped loving each other. Our lives took us in very different directions but, in the end, her heart always came home to me and Texas.”
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