Farrah Fawcett’s death was famously overshadowed by that of Michael Jackson, who died on the very same day just a few miles away, so it is no surprise that it has taken fans of the famed actress years to learn the details of her heartbreaking final moments. As People reported around the 10th anniversary of her death in 2019, her final words were simply her son’s name. “She was saying his name, ‘Redmond,'” a close friend of Fawcett’s, Mela Murphy, recalled at the time. “That was the last thing she said.”
Redmond, who was 24 at the time, was living a famously troubled life. Only the year prior, he was arrested alongside his father for possession of drugs, namely methamphetamine, according to the New York Daily News. The following year, only a few months before Fawcett’s death, he was arrested once again for possession of heroin, per the Wrap. Even Tatum O’Neal, his half-sister, said of Redmond in 2015 (per People), “I love him, but I have never seen a more scary side of addiction.”
Naturally, then, it is understandable why Fawcett’s young son was at the top of her mind as she approached her final hours. Luckily though, her friend Murphy assuaged her fears near the end. “I told her I’d take care of him,” Murphy told People, “that I’ll always be there for him. I said, ‘You can go now.’ It was just a few hours before she died.”
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