Publicist and actress Tanya Roberts’ partner now says she is still alive – after announcing her death on Sunday, according to reports.
A day after she released a statement saying that the 65-year-old former Bond girl had died, her representative Mike Pingel made the amazing admission to TMZ on Monday that she was wrong.
The spokesman said Roberts’ longtime partner, Lance O’Brien, informed him of her transfer to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She was hospitalized there on Christmas Eve when she collapsed at home after walking her dog, Pingel said.
Pingel told the media that O’Brien received a phone call from the hospital Monday morning, saying Roberts was actually alive.
It is not clear how the mistake occurred.
Inside Edition on Monday said one of his reporters was actually interviewing O’Brien when he suddenly received a phone call saying the “That 70s Show” actress was alive.
“Are you telling me he’s alive now?” O’Brien says in a video released by the press.
“The hospital tells me he is alive. He calls me from the ICU team “, he adds.
Hospital staff had previously told him that Roberts “had no hope of living,” O’Brien said.
While the star did not have COVID-19, she was placed on a ventilator because she was struggling to breathe, according to O’Brien – who said she was not allowed to visit Roberts because of coronavirus protocols until he thought it was the final moments.
“While I was holding her in her last moments, she opened her eyes,” he told TMZ on Sunday. “I was able to see her beautiful eyes for the last time. Tanya had the most beautiful eyes. ”
Neither Pingel nor O’Brien immediately returned messages from The Post on Monday.
In addition to her role in “That 70s Show,” as Donna Pinciotti’s mother, Midge, Roberts was best known for her role in the 1985 film 007 “A View to a Kill.”
The New York native also appeared on the TV show “Charlie’s Angels” for his last season in 1980-1981.
She was previously married to actor Barry Roberts, who died at the age of 60 in 2006.
Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy