UPDATED: Farrah Fawcett Reportedly Hospitalized, Statement is Released

UPDATE: Fawcett’s producer in the documentary ‘A Wing and a Prayer’ has released the following statement:

On Farrah Fawcett ’s behalf, I can confirm that she recently checked into a Los Angeles hospital. And although it is usually against her nature to correct false or exaggerated stories that originate in tabloid style reports by offering true information that those ‘journalists’ would not otherwise have to publish. Farrah is allowing this statement out of appreciation for her fans, who have offered their constant support throughout her fight, as well as out of concern for the countless of other cancer patients who have written to her to say that they are following her story in the hope that there is hope. Tonight, Farrah has hope and she hopes that others will continue to hold onto theirs. In spite of what they read.

Farrah Fawcett’s three-year battle with cancer appears to have taken a bad turn.

According to Radaronline.com, a website owned by the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media, the 62-year-old actress has been hospitalized in Los Angeles since last Thursday and is in critical condition.

One of the original three Charlie’s Angels, Fawcett has been battling rectal cancer since 2006. She enjoyed a brief period of remission before her cancer returned in 2007. She was reportedly in Germany recently receiving an experimental cancer treatment, but her condition worsened.

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Radar’s sources claimed that Fawcett was monitored at bedside by loved ones Ryan O’Neal and son Redmond, who skipped out of rehab last week.

Sadly, earlier this week Redmond, 24, was back behind bars after police found him carrying heroin and xanax at a detention center in Castaic, Calif. According to Eonline.com, the long-troubled celebrity offspring “was just giving friends a ride to the facility but was stopped at a routine security checkpoint in the parking lot when the drugs were found.”

He was arrested and is being held on $25,000 bail.

The family has experienced a difficult past few years. During the time of her diagnosis in 2006, the actress lost her sister from lung cancer and her mother passed away. Both Ryan and Redmond have had run-ins with the law and faced time in rehab.

Fawcett’s battle against cancer has been chronicled in a documentary. Access Hollywood reported that NBC plans to air “A Wing and A Prayer,” though no air date has been set. “NBC is as courageous as Farrah for airing the subject matter that she is filming in prime time,” Craig Nevius, the documentary’s producer, said in a statement released to Access.

“I’m holding on to the hope that there is some reason I got cancer and that there is something, that may not be very clear to me right now, that I will do,” Fawcett said during an interview shot for the documentary.

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